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...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 3rd March, 2020 Bathurst (08:05) 11.57 km 14.8 km/h Dunkeld (09:58) 0 hr 44 min 250.66 km Today, I had planned to cycle on to Bathurst. About a couple of hours into the day, which was slow going, the weather was starting to turn rather quickly. At Dunkeld, I...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 2nd March, 2020 Lithgow (08:18) 63.38 km 15.2 km/h Bathurst (16:06) 4 hr 11 min 239.09 km Today was a fairly straightforward day, basically just to get from Lithgow to Bathurst. I left just after 08:00, from the motel I was staying at, and took the main...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 1st March, 2020 Katoomba (08:36) 37.92 km 15.6 km/h Lithgow (14:16) 2 hr 26 min 175.71 km After a restful night, still very satisfied from succeeding where I’d failed on two previous attempts at making it all the way to Katoomba, I set off around 08:30...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 29th February, 2020 Penrith (08:59) 52.94 km 11.8 km/h Katoomba (18:40) 4 hr 30 min 137.79 km Today was going to be a battle. An uphill battle. On two previous occasions, I failed to climb the mountain – once due to running out of daylight and once...
A note to begin with. It’s taken me almost two years to get around to writing these posts. I’ve often thought about writing them, but wondered how I would go about it. As a result, I’ve had to write these posts from memory. while they may be largely accurate, there be be...
It’s amazing how quickly things are changing lately. Earlier this month, I wrote about dropping my Manchester to Rome ride, in favour of a ride around New South Wales and Victoria, due to increasing restrictions as a resurgence of Covid marches its way across Europe. Previous to...