My first bike ride to the office

I 've been thinking about this for a while now, but everytime it was time to jump on the bike I always found a logical reason not to do so.
Yesterday I finally decided I should give it a try. I woke up very early (6,30 am), drunk my espresso, dressed up with my bike trousers and started my ride.

Riding a bike from my home to my office means crossing the whole city (Rome) from north to south mainly using the Tiber river bank, where the main Rome's bike path lays.

It took me a little more then an hour to cover the 25 km for the morning leg and then almost two hours going back to home in the afternoon using a different and longer path (35km).

All in all has been a good experience, I think I will do it again as often as my job will let to do so....

Here is the morning leg



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Marturanum and Canale Monterano

Last two week-ends I 've been riding into the natural parks some 50 miles north of Rome: Riserva di Marturanum and Riserva di Canale Monterano.

Here are the reports:

Marturanum

Canale Monterano

New Mtb blog

The 2008 mtb biking season has now started...my biking pal Raoul has decided to start a new blog, bit&bike, where we will post all of our mtb treks.

Yesterday I went to Genzano  to meet Fabio, another member of the team, for a nice ride around the Colli Albani. We went from Genzano (473mt.) to Monte Cavo (949mt.) then all the way down to the beautyful Nemi lake (316mt.) using the Via Sacra and finally back to Genzano.

All in all a very good trek, here is the map



I also took a few pics.