Blog posts of travels in the Oceania region. This includes Australia, New Zealand, and other countries grouped in the Oceania region.
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 13th March, 2020 Nagambie (07:04) 67.76 km 17.8 km/h Pyalong (14:06) 3 hr 48 min 1076.56 km There was going to be a lot of climbing later in the day. Over the last five days, I’ve been cycling more than 100 km – two of them over 130 km. Already...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 12th March, 2020 Benalla (07:12) 117.65 km 18.4 km/h Nagambie (14:06) 6 hr 23 min 1008.8 km Another dawn start, Hannah and I made our way out of Benalla, on the Midland Highway, on a fairly cool morning. I’ve always preferred cycling in the cooler...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 11th March, 2020 North Albury, NSW (07:09) 131.81 km 18 km/h Benalla, Victoria (16:09) 7 hr 18 min 891.15 km I checked out at 06:45 and headed back to the footy club to meet up with Hannah and the rest of the guys. We started rolling at dawn. Despite Albury...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 10th March, 2020 Lockhart (07:08) 108.49 km 17.4 km/h Albury (14:13) 6 hr 14 min 759.34 km Hannah and I left at the crack of dawn, just after 07:00. The aim was to reach Albury as close as possible to lunch time, which is why we left so early. A little cool...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 9th March, 2020 Ariah Park (07:53) 135.09 km 18.4 km/h Lockhart (16:02) 7 hr 21 min 650.85 km It was an early start. Last night, one of the other cyclists, Hannah, said that she’d be leaving before the others and asked whether I’d wish to also...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 8th March, 2020 Ungarie (08:54) 103.74 km 19.8 km/h Ariah Park (14:54) 5 hr 15 min 515.76 km Today was the day when I would officially start Pedal Cure 4 FightMND. I’ve never cycled with a large group of people before, so this was going to be different...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 7th March, 2020 Ungarie 0 km 412.02 km Today was a rest day. I was actually up much earlier than I expected. I wandered around for a while, Ungarie is a very small town, with very few shops in it. Hardly any, to be honest. I walked up and down the main street...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 6th March, 2020 Forbes (07:26) 121.8 km 15.8 km/h Ungarie (17:30) 7 hr 43 min 412.02 km There was no denying that today was going to be a tough day. It would involve a 120 km day. And over half of that will be on some very, very bad road. It will also be my...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 5th March, 2020 Forbes 0 km 290.22 km I woke up and it was, as expected, bucketing down with rain. I made the right call by not thinking of cycling today. Today has now effectively become a rest day, as I’m being driven on to Forbes. I was picked up at...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 4th March, 2020 Orange (07:41) 39.56 km 23.4 km/h Cudal (09:38) 1 hr 41 min 290.22 km Today was going to be a fast day. With only a few short uphill stretches, it was going to be mostly a downhill day. I expected it would only take a few hours. I set off from...