Freedom 49
No fun if it's too easy!
55th. Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey.
We seem to have ignored this event this year. Maybe because it's not come through Alanya, Side, Antalya, etc etc where there are heavier European populations or perhaps it's not had sufficient advertising to catch people's attention?
I don't know, anyway, I enjoy it and have been catching up in the evenings after work and managed to catch up with all but one of the stages.
The race ends today, the last stage being from Sakarya - Istanbul but yesterdays stage was really interesting for me, because, it was from Bursa - Kartepe. Kartepe is not overly far from Kocaeli Forest and Kocaeli is still declared on my Turkish Kimlik because that was where my husband was from.
I'm so pleased to be living down here on the south coast though. Kocaeil is known for it's hotels and ski slopes and, albeit towards the end of April, the nearer they got to Kartepe, the heavier the snow was on the ground.
I was almost frozen just watching them, those riders that took part are tough!
Great racing, good support from the locals as always but it will be interesting to see if they schedule the race to start along the southern coastline next year. :smile:
I don't know, anyway, I enjoy it and have been catching up in the evenings after work and managed to catch up with all but one of the stages.
The race ends today, the last stage being from Sakarya - Istanbul but yesterdays stage was really interesting for me, because, it was from Bursa - Kartepe. Kartepe is not overly far from Kocaeli Forest and Kocaeli is still declared on my Turkish Kimlik because that was where my husband was from.
I'm so pleased to be living down here on the south coast though. Kocaeil is known for it's hotels and ski slopes and, albeit towards the end of April, the nearer they got to Kartepe, the heavier the snow was on the ground.
I was almost frozen just watching them, those riders that took part are tough!
Great racing, good support from the locals as always but it will be interesting to see if they schedule the race to start along the southern coastline next year. :smile: