Wednesday 6th April, 2022 It was a relief to not have to get on the bike today and to sleep in a bit. I can't remember now whether we used the motel laundry last night or this morning, but this was, by now, our typical motel room drying set-up. We never put our bike clothes …
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IP Day 16 – Nundroo to Ceduna
Tuesday 5th April, 2022152.38km +513mMoving 6:16 Elapsed 8:50 Avg 24.3km/h Max 48.3km/h Another latish start, rolling out at 10 past 9. We planned just to go to Penong today - only 80km - and I had rung and booked a cabin. After the last few big days, taking two 'hops' to get to …
IP Day 15 – Nullarbor RH to Nundroo
Monday 4th April, 2022 144.35km +638mMoving 6:31 Elapsed 8:02Avg 22.1km/h max 52.4km/h After yesterday's huge day we got on the road a bit late with an 8:24am departure. (A reprieve from the pre-dawn eating/nausea for me at least.) About 18km along the road we passed the 'NULLARBOR PLAIN -Eastern End of the Treeless …
IP Day 14 – Border Village to Nullarbor Roadhouse
Sunday 3rd April. 2022 187.07km +242mMoving 9:04 Elapsed 12:29Avg speed 20.6km/h Max: 32.5km/h Strava: Totally shattered. 😓Headwind the whole day meant having to pedal even the slight downhills. Guess which way the wind was blowing... no lull. Sunrise on the road again. We left Border Village at 4.15am ACWST, and, with the end of …
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IP Day 13 – Mundrabilla to Border Village
Saturday 2nd April, 2022 78.57km +126mMoving 3:22 Elapsed 5:21Avg 23.3km/h Max 32.7km/h It's pretty confusing looking back trying to work out just exactly how stupid o'clock our departure was, between the official and unofficial time zones, and every app deciding to extract a different timestamp out of the Garmin data. Strava's 4.02am is seemingly (somehow) …
Rest day Mundrabilla Roadhouse
Friday, 1st April 2022 What to do at a roadhouse on a rest day (and when you can only get mobile reception in the roadhouse itself, and not in the motel room? We did washing, had a hit of table tennis in the roadhouse, and went for wander up the back towards the escarpment. We …
IP Day 12 – Madura to Mundrabilla
Thursday 31st March, 2022 117.29km +52mMoving 5:33:00 Elapsed 7:21:12Avg speed 21.1km/h Max speed 42.7km/h Strava description: Good going till the wind picked up by about 7 or 8. The last 10k into Mundrabilla were brutal. Marc's TwoUp FB post: Beautiful pre-dawn ride but then crazy wind gusting 45km/hr barely getting speed into the teens... …
Day 11 – Cocklebiddy to Madura
Wednesday 30th March, 2022 90.26km +147m4:50 moving . Elapsed 6:09 Avg 18.6 kph Max 49.8 kphStrava description: [expletive, expletive, expletive....] We had a bit of rain during the night, but thankfully not too much, given we were 'tarping' rather than 'tenting' it. (No opportunity, though, for star-gazing from the middle of nowhere and away from …
IP Day 10 – Caiguna to Cocklebiddy
Tuesday 29th March, 2022 66.7km, +87m3:26 moving, 5:50 elapsed*avg 19.4km/h, max 30.8*another case of not stopping the ride when we arrived. Actual elapsed = 4:15 Message to my sister: Only going to Cocklebiddy today, I'm struggling with everything, can't get saddle right, nauseous every morning, guess we'll kind of stay with it, try to make …
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