The ride began, as most of mine do, from home in Kokkino Chorio. On paper it was a fairly ordinary Apokoronas circuit: 38.4 kilometres, 819 metres of ascent, 831 metres of descent and a highest point of 300 metres. The E-MTB was moving for 2 hours 27 minutes, averaging 15.6 km/h, with nine recognised climbs…

Ammoudari–Askifou Plateau Loop Introduction Some rides are remembered for a summit or a descent. This one was claimed by a jar. At the edge of Ammoudari, beside an old threshing floor, a weathered pithos stood half in the earth, emptied of grain or oil but not of meaning. From there the track climbed through the…