Il Lombardia 2019

Race Report · Classics / Monuments · 2019 Il Lombardia The Race of the Falling Leaves — the fifth and last Monument · October 13, 2019 The fifth and last Monument was the Giro di Lombardia — la classica delle foglie morte, run in the fall, when the trees of Lombardy strip themselves bare. I did it a week after

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Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2019

Race Report · Classics / Monuments · 2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège The hardest of the Classics — La Doyenne, in the Ardennes · April 27, 2019 In April 2019, La Doyenne — the Old Lady, the oldest of the classics, first run in 1892. I got there a few days early and had a surprise right away in central Brussels: a temporary

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