Distance:   24.37km (singletrail: 1km)
Elevation:  613m
Duration:   1h50
Avg. Speed: 13.3km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Easy starting along the Ticino. Uphil (10-15%) on a small paved road, as almost always in Ticino . You’ll then follow a small trail on a stony path downhill. There are lot of leaves which makes the path slippery. Some turns are quite exposed, so be sure to not fall.
After the short trail you’ll land on paved roads again and ride along Bellinzona. You’ll encounter the castle “Castello di Sasso Corbaro”.
Except from the short trail no difficulty and nice scenery.

Distance:   30.68km (singletrail: 1km)
Elevation:  1010m
Duration:   2h21
Avg. Speed: 13.0km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Uphill on paved path or street, panorama route on forest track. On one small part you need to carry your bike on stairs going up.
Nice scenery, no difficulty.

Distance:   41.39km (singletrail: about 6km)
Elevation:  1736m
Duration:   4h21
Avg. Speed: 9.4km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

On the last day we took again some shorter trip, but boah. Just hard. If you are the person able to cycle 25% and more (!) of grade over a longer period, ie 3-5km on a stony path, this is your paradise! You’ll be rewarded with a nice flowing single trail slightly going down from the top.

If on the other hand you prefer to cycle most of the part, you should do the tour in the opposite direction.

8′000 Hm left to reach the 100′000 this year.

Distance:   53.23km (singletrail: about 16km)
Elevation:  1850m
Duration:   6h05
Avg. Speed: 8.7km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Second day in Ticino with Röbi we chose some longer tour, which was highly promoted on different websites. We were not disappointed. We already did the upgoing part to Monta Bar this year, but it was amazingly easier this time!

Then came a 12km long singletrail all around the valley. Great! Fantastic. Not everything was cyclable though (just some smaller parts) and the trail is not that easy neither. But “Freude ohne Ende”.

We stayed in a bed&breakfast at Isabelle Bernasconi’s place we can highly recommend. Very nice. And by chance 2 of our tracks were just quite near the house

Distance:   35.29km (singletrail: about 8km)
Elevation:  1532m
Duration:   3h49
Avg. Speed: 9.2km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

Röbi and me went on a 3 day short holiday trip to Ticino to do some biking. As the weather was predicted to be lousy in the north, this came very handy. Even it was quite cold in the south as well.

First trip started near Minusio and the plan was to bike along the south mountain parts to profit from the warming sun. Well, it was cold and the tour wasn’t too much on the sun. The upgoing part is all on paved roads until almost to the top. The last part you probably will need to walk some 15min. From the top it goes down on some nice singletrails until you get back to the starting point.

Nice trip for these cold season.

Distance:   117.2km
Elevation:  1904m
Duration:   5h00
Avg. Speed: 23.4km/h
Details:    gpsies, trainingstagebuch
TCX file:   TCX file (including elevation alerts)

We organized a little training weekend in Ticino for the Gigathlon with our team (or the ones who could participate and had time). Unfortunately one person fell sick so we went cycling as a party of tree people (Sergio, Martin and me).

The part around Indemini is great but also hard. You’ll have to cycle endless serpentines to arrive on top. The roads are not that cyclingfriendly as in the german part of Switzerland, you’ll realize that especially around San Antonino shortly after Bellinzona. A big mess with the bicycle! We had to look for a way to surround the main road (closed for cyclists) for several minutes and even jump over fences…

As my companions were much better in shape, I was mainly in the slipstream and I had 20min more going up on my own speed. But it was a great trip.