Wednesday 23rd March 2022 188.9km, +731m9:43 moving, 14:46 elapsed. avg 19.4, max 36.5Entering the traditional lands of the Wongatha (Wongi) people. Marc's TwoUp post: 1.00am start, headwinds all night and day. 9 deg and windy made it quite cold just after dawn. Hard work but got there.Tracey's Strava post: 'Shattered' M: The alarm went off …
Category: 2022 – Indipac
IP Day 4 – Carrabin to Southern Cross
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 67.8km, +292m, 3:35 moving, avg 18.9 km/h, max 33.9Riding through onto the traditional lands of the Gubrun/Kubrun/Kaprun) people. (Kaalamaya was the language of the Kaprun people, who were driven away from their lands.) Link to rwgps - but my time stamp went haywire this day. We definitely didn't start the evening …
IP Day 3 – Bruce Rock to Carrabin
Monday 21st March 2022 94km +450m 4:25 moving, 7:23 elapsed.avg 21.3 kph, max 49.9 kph From yesterday afternoon through today we were travelling through the traditional lands of the Njaki Njaki Nyoongar people - Shackleton, Bruce Rock, Merredin, and Carrabin (and tomorrow, Moorine Rock.) So, a more civilised time of departure today - at about 7.30am …
IP Day 2 – York to Bruce Rock
Sunday 20th March 147.8km, +839mMoving 7:45 elapsed 10:49 Avg 19 km/h Max 47 km/h6:09am departure. (not sure what we did for breakfast) Strava comment: Last time I believe the +m in a RWGPS route 🥴... Only did about double what the route reckoned. (Not great psychologically when you've made a note in your head that …
IP Day 1 – Fremantle to York
Saturday 19th March| 126km, +1,426m Moving: 6:55 Elapsed: 9:35Max: 60.8 kph Avg: 18.2 kphMy Strava 'description': Hard yakka on the tandem, nearly 1000m climbing in the first 60k 👀 (but we knew that would be the case) Could have done without the stiff easterly. (click through to rwgps route) The Noongar (/ˈnʊŋɑː/, also spelt Noongah, …
Countdown
So, really, the start of a tour isn't the first day on the road. Sure, there's the (sometimes long) lead-up of route planning, and (if needed) the acquiring of new gear. For me, it really starts when the packing does.T minus 7, T minus 6… Saturday & Sunday 12/13th MarchOne week till the start, but …
Indipac 2022 – Recap time
I promised myself - and Marc - that I would come back and record our IPWR/Indipac ride... tour... journey....adventure.... utter madness... (can't quite decide what to call it) in more detail here. While we posted to our TwoUp Facebook page most days, it was pretty brief, and it's also not particularly easy to scroll back …
Day by day progress
Will be adding each day's ride (in a different colour) to this as we go. Well, whenever we have internet, and the energy!
Indipac links
Satellite tracking site MAProgress:We're 'TwoUp'https://indianpacificwheelride2022.maprogress.com/ Our FB page https://www.facebook.com/twouptandem The Indipac Dot Watchers FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IPWR.DW
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