[Leica] IMG: La Vuelta a España 2023

[Aram Langhans]

Wow.  That is a great series and shows what they must go through to 
compete at that level.  I was surprised that some of them do not look 
real young.  I love to ride but certainly not at that level.   My body 
is really giving me fits the last few years.  I have a hard time even 
getting 20 miles anymore, but I keep at it. Seems to be the one thing 
that my knees can still do in a strenuous fashion as long as my back 
lets them.

Thanks for showing them.

Aram

On 9/2/2023 12:49 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> There are 3 grand tours in professional cycling—the Giro d’Italia in the spring, the Tour de France in July, and the Vuelta a España in August/September.  Today, the 8th stage of the Vuelta passed through what I call “my playground”, the mountains in the interior of Alicante province. As usual, I picked a spot to watch the race that would allow for good photo opportunities: going uphill (meaning relatively slow speed) and late in the stage, so that the peloton would be broken up into several groups. I drove to a bar 6 km from the penultimate mountain pass of the stage, a place which I visit on two wheels myself, and things worked out great. I had a nice vantage point and took a lot of photos. These are the initial serving that I particularly liked:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Vuelta-a-Espa%C3%B1a-2023/
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> Tomorrow, I will climb the Carrasqueta on bicycle (unless it is raining—cycling uphill on wet roads is OK but descending on wet curvy roads is not OK).
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> Cheers,
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> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson