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BIKING TUSCANY 76 WWW.RYANAIRMAG.COM FLY TO PERUGIA FROM BARCELONA (GIRONA) | LONDON (STANSTED) | FLY TO PISA (FLORENCE) FROM 48 DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING Covering 205km through the hills of Tuscany, L’Eroica is the most gruelling amateur cycling race in Italy. Oh, and your bike has to be more than 20 years old too! Sam Polcer gives it a go. Photography by Peter DiAntoni Of the many people who shared the view that I was in trouble, the German with the stovepipe legs I’d met at a pizzeria the night before the start of the race sticks out the most. “You’re going to die,” he said, in the same matter-of-fact way he might have told me my shirt was on backwards. “Have you seen those hills?” The non-competitive, one-day bicycle race known as L’Eroica (“The Heroic”) is held every October in Italy’s Chianti wine region. It’s a celebration of the history of long-distance cycling, of an era of woollen jersey-clad warriors powering up and down hilly, gravelly roads on skinny tyres. Anyone can join in – so long as they ride bikes made before 1987. Participants tackling 38km, 75km, 135km or 205km versions of the route fuel up on “vintage refreshments”, such as bread, prosciutto and Chianti, at rest stops staffed by men and women in period dress. It’s less of a race and more of an opportunity for personal achievement, doubling as historical re-enactment, and has been going itself since 1997. Chianti, in Tuscany, is also a place of legendary beauty. How many more excuses do you need? Yet, like any true racer, when I arrived at Gaiole in Chianti, the town that hosts
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