Saturday, November 28, 2009

Gran Fondo Craziness: 3,647 Registered in 3 Hours


How popular can a gran fondo event be? Today, in the first three hours of online registration for the Gran Fondo Nove Colli there were 3,647 registrants! The regions most represented were Lombardia (614 entries) followed by the Emilia Romagna (508) and then Lazio (424). The most represented nations where Switzerland (109 entries), Belgium (43) and Germany (41); also 9 Australian and 1 Japanese entries.

Event information at www.novecolli.it

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