I have just got back home after spending two days in Bolzano. Yesterday it took 5 h to get there by airplane (driving from my house, waiting at the airport, flying and then cab to the hotel) and today about 6 h. I went out tonight just to do something and enjoy the breeze. It is funny because when I arrived in Salt Lake City in 2001 I felt the whole setting was very similar to Bolzano (a city in a valley surrounded by mountains), now I consider Bolzano like Salt Lake, even though the valley is very narrow and the mountains are just 360 degrees all around and you can reach the tops of some of them with a tramway from the city. I spent two good days upthere and yesterday I managed a few miles along the river, the main problem there are the bike paths (and the bikes on them), there are miles and miles of bike paths crowded with bikers going everywhere (to and from work, loaded with groceries, biking is an official way to go around town), I risked several times collisions with bikers coming from different directions, it was crazy and a few times I felt much safer running on the main road along with cars..... Back to a more normal schedule and probably my legs in a few days will be ready to resume a more regular running routine.
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