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 …
Category: 2022 – Indipac
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 …
IP Day 9 – Balladonia to Caiguna
Monday 28th March, 2022 182km, +164m 9:00 moving, 11:52 elapsedavg 20.2 kph, max 35.6 kph Strava description: Hours of agony. Cold headwind all day. Don't remember getting to coast at any time. (RIP Marc's Lezyne - the Garmin better behave!) We managed to leave at 5.09am (about 20 minutes before first light.) Marc went to …
Rest day Balladonia Roadhouse
Sunday 27th March 2022 There's not a lot to do on a rest day in a Roadhouse on the Nullarbor, but it was sweet relief not to have to get on the bike. Balladonia Roadhouse, at least, boasted TWO 'attractions'! One is the Skylab crash (replica) display - from when Skylab came crashing to earth …
IP Day 8 – Norseman to Balladonia
Saturday 26th March, 2022 190km, +762m,8:09 moving, 10:56 elapsed.avg 23.3 kph, max 50 kph We set off riding at 6.10am, after buying food in the roadhouse before we left, and (for me at least) trying to eat something that might count as breakfast. We might have started our 'Nullarbor' section, but we were still in …
IP Day 7 – Widgiemooltha to Norseman
Friday 25th March, 2022 89.4km, +399mmoving 3:41, elapsed 5:05*avg 24.3, max 50.2 * adjusted elapsed time, didn't end ride till about 45mins after stopping Well, that was... a night. The compound for the roadworks was right next to the roadhouse, and it seemed like they were working through the night, with vehicles coming and going …
IP Day 6 – Coolgardie to Widgiemooltha
Thursday 24th March 75.9km, +270m3:35 moving, 4:31 elapsed.avg 21.2, max 45.2 After the huge day yesterday, and with not quite 80k to Widgiemooltha, there was no point leaving early. So much for our sketched-out plans made pre-ride which assumed we'd have 'trained up' enough by then to be able to do Coolgardie to Norseman - …
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