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Subject: [Leica] IMG: La Vuelta in Jijona
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:06:34 +0200

The Vuelta a Espa?a bicycle race started last weekend. After a series of 
relatively flat stages, yesterday things got serious. Stage 7 contained six 
mountain passes over 152 km, finishing in the mountains near Tibi, one of my 
cycling destinations. So I took the afternoon off to go and see the race. I 
planned to cycle to Tibi and catch the Vuelta at the top of the penultimate 
mountain pass of the stage. But the climb to Tibi is very tough, and inland 
temperatures were going to hit 40C during the afternoon. Driving was not an 
option (you go to see a bicycle race on a bicycle, or else you stay home and 
watch on TV). So instead, I cycled to Jijona, about 24 km away, and found a 
great spot with shade, shared with a nice local family. It was on a steep 
uphill, so the speed of the cyclists would be moderate (all relatively 
speaking, of course), and at that point the cyclists would have 120-125 km 
and four passes in their legs, so I knew the peleton would be nicely spread 
out, and it would take 20-30 minutes for everyone to pass. And so it was.

What I like about cycling from a spectator?s point of view is that in no 
other professional sport can you get so close to the competitors. I could 
have touched the cyclists if I had wanted to. But I settled for photos, and 
a small gallery of 29 images is now uploaded. Some of the images are not 
technically perfect but I included them anyway because they show the effort 
and suffering of the cyclists. Where I could identify the cyclists, I have 
done so in the captions. It?s all here:

https://www.greatpix.eu/La-Vuelta-in-Jijona/ 
<https://www.greatpix.eu/La-Vuelta-in-Jijona/>

As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.

Nathan 

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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YNWA

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