Day 402 – EU – Italy [Fano to Rimini]

11/05/21

46.9km

  From Fano (Italy) to Rimini (Italy)

Europe

Another pancake flat run by the sea, reaching a soon-to-be action-packed Rimini!

Sunny out by the sea early morning

I was particularly pleased this morning as I left Fano under bright blue skies and… well not a cloud above my head. I could see the horizon seemed more grey than blue, but it was not a matter for now. One more sunny day on the Adriatic coast. The coastline is very busy this month, with diggers and machinery working hard to clean the sand, even out the beaches and plant endless rows of sun umbrellas. It will be operational soon.

Through “Bike City” beautiful Pesaro

I passed by the city of Pesaro mid morning, dubbed the “City de la Bicicletta”. Indeed there were a lot of cycling paths and I was pleased not to have to run on the main road (that dreaded National Road 16 again!). I headed towards Cattolica, which I ran through, before running on the seaside again for the final 20km to Rimini. About 1.5km from the finish, having run 45km already, I spotted a nice little restaurant by the sea and sat down for lunch. When I do this (run in 2 parts) I record 2 Garmin files (the break is too long and my device goes to sleep). I keep these two files for my records (and for WRA verification). I then use the “Fit Files Tools Merge” website to merge the two files (it “sticks” the two files together). This makes a “merged” 3rd file which ends up in 1 GPS file, which is what I upload on Garmin and Strava.

What does the pink flyer say? Did I read Giro d’Italia?!

From Cattolica onwards, I started noticing a lot of little Pink Flyers affixed on boards everywhere in the streets and on the seaside promenade. I looked closer and got a surprise: the Giro d’Italia is passing here tomorrow, 12th May! The stage will start from Modena, pass through Rimini and finish in Cattolica. I am glad tomorrow is a rest day, there is definitely some action going on in Rimini and I will be there to watch the peloton as it zooms past the city!

Check my daily run GPS data on or

Here is the map of today’s run: