"Miguel simply has too much on his plate!" Induráin's agent does not tolerate any contradiction. The meeting with the former champion is not going to work out. It would have been too nice to come to Pamplona so that Induráin himself could give him tips on cycling in his home country. Last attempt, without the official channels. Asked directly, Miguel Induráin agrees to a meeting at his place on the outskirts of Pamplona. Actually, he just wants to chat about old races and bikes, but when he hears the word "Pyrenees", he opens up and tells us that he still cycles there every week and has even devised a circular tour through Navarre, the centrepiece of which leads through the mountains in the east and north of his home country. One of Induráin's comments, which he accompanies with a smug smile, is that you can pack away the fair-weather clichés on this multi-day tour, even now in the early Spanish summer.
The entire article about Navarre and the GPS data for these tours can be found below as a PDF download:
- Tour 1: Fields, vultures, cheese (94 kilometres, 1,560 vertical metres, maximum gradient of eight per cent)
- Tour 2: Pyrenean Forest (87 kilometres, 1,430 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of nine per cent)
- Tour 3: Navarre's cycling mecca (95 kilometres, 1,740 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of ten percent)
- Tour 4: High up (87 kilometres, 1,420 metres in altitude, maximum gradient of twelve percent)
- Tour 5: Grand Prix Induráin (62 kilometres, 1,090 metres in altitude, maximum gradient twelve percent)
Downloads:
PDF: Spain: Navarre
GPS data: Spain: Navarre
