[Leica] IMG: La Vuelta in Jijona

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nice. I was watching this yesterday on cable (yes, we get it, live), while
waiting for a PL football game to start, and I was wondering why people
spend a few hours baking in the sun to see their heroes flash by. The whole
spectacle seems to be over in 30 seconds. I admit I do not understand much
about these long distance, week/month long cycling races, so am I missing
something?

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 6:36 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> The Vuelta a España 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.
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> 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/>
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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