Giro delle tre chiese - Offanengo (CR)

Offanengo, a small town near Crema (less then 30 miles east of Milan), hosted the 6th edition of the "Gire delle tre chiese" (lit. "Tour of the 3 churches"), a beautiful race with a technical course that runs for 4 laps (for male runners and 3 for female runners) through small streets and sharp turns (each lap measures 1530 meters).

Although this is only the 6th edition, the race has grown in popularity and has become a benchmark for a lot of elite runners ... just consider that the course record is 17:46 (6120 meters), set by Abdelhadi Tyar (Morocco) last year.

As I said more than once I truly love to race in the evening (after dark) through the streets of small towns, and once again last night I couldn't have been happier: excellent organization and beautiful environment for this evening race.

I'll try to run it again in the future.