Sunday 24th April, 2022 110 km, +1215mMoving 5:17 Elapsed 8:33Max 58.6 kph Avg 21 kph A little bit slower to get away this morning - a 7am start. 15km to the coast again, and mostly downhill albeit with one or two little uphill pinches. The ocean glimpse was a tease though... we were promptly heading …
IP Day 32 – Warrnambool to Lavers Hill
Saturday 23rd April, 2022 119km +1211mMoving 6:19, Elapsed 9:27Max 58 kph, Avg 18.8 kph We got away at 6.15. It might have been a reasonable temperature of around 15 degrees when we left the motel, but it dropped to about 3 degrees ('feels like 2.3'!) within about 10km as we made our way over the …
IP Day 31 – Portland to Warrnambool
Friday 22nd April, 2022 102km +375mMoving 4:50 Elapsed 7:24Max 49.7 kph Avg 21 kph 6.30am start again, but with the time zone change (yet still being very west), sunrise wasn't until just after 7am. So we packed up and rolled out, as quietly as we could, in the dark.We found our way through town and …
IP Day 30 – Mount Gambier to Portland
Thursday 21st April, 2022 123k +646mMoving 5:34 Elapsed 7:41Max 51 kph, Avg 22 kph We got away at 6.30 again. Seems to be our go-to compromise time. From my point of view, while I can't eat, I'm at least not too nauseous and can keep down a slowly sipped cup of tea or coffee. When …
IP Day 29 – Beachport to Mount Gambier
Wednesday 20th April, 2022 85km +305m6:47 elapsed (but actually 4:43 arriving in Mount G) 3:29 movingMax 48.8 kph, Avg 24.5 kph 6:30 departure. Don from Rendelsham (aka the cycling dotwatcher who gave us too much of a headstart yesterday!) picked us up somewhere along the stretch to Rendelsham. We stopped briefly in Rendelsham itself for …
IP Day 28 – Kingston to Beachport
Tuesday 19th April, 2022 98km, +128mMoving 4:06 Elapsed 6:13Max 35.8kph, Avg 23.9kph I have no idea how he talked me into starting THIS early, but it was 5:10am when we left. For reference, this is a full one-and-a-half hours before sunrise! And that whole thing about how it actually gets colder around dawn. Yeah, that. …
Rest day – Kingston SE
Monday 18th April, 2022 A leisurely, do-nothing-much day. We rode downtown for a late breakfast at a cafe, taking a bit of a 'scenic' route via some cycle paths on the reserve around the creek. After breakfast/brunch we checked out the relocated Cape Jaffa Lighthouse, which is a decommissioned lighthouse that has been relocated to …
IP Day 27 – Policeman Point to Kingston
Sunday 17th April, 2022 92.6km, +194mMoving 3:15, Elapsed 3:58Max 43.8, Avg 28.4 Message to my sister yesterday: So so tired, just got to do one more day and I can have a day off We got away at about 6.45. I have no memory of what we had with us for breakfast-y food. [Edit: I …
IP Day 26 – Tailem Bend to Policeman Point
Saturday 16th April, 2022 104km, +336mMoving 4:04 Elapsed 7:22Max 51.7 Avg 25.6 Now that was a better average pace! 25.6 km/h! We had time today to have a civilised 'daylight breakfast' (ie. one I had a chance of eating and keeping down), so we rolled out of the motel around 7am and around the block …
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