Wow. What a great year 2017 was, in terms of travel. Mostly one set of travels, really! I am, of course, referring to my Cycle Against the Beast bicycle ride from Sydney to Melbourne, for Fight MND (previously, known as the Cure for MND Foundation. This was the first time I’d ridden...
It’s been just over two weeks, since I completed my bicycle ride from Spotless Stadium, in Sydney, to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), in Melbourne. My Cycle Against the Beast ride was in support of FightMND, which is the public face of the Cure for MND Foundation. In the last...
Update: It appears that this article has since been removed, as the journalist has now moved on. A couple of days ago, while I was taking a break in Seymour, I was contacted by a journalist, named Barclay White, from the Shepparton News. He asked whether he could do an interview about my...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 20 – 8th June, 2017 Seymoud (08:09) 100.4 km 19.9 km/h Melbourne Cricket Ground (15:57) 6:48 916.74 km Today, like most mornings over the last couple of weeks, was quite cold. It was also foggy. Not too much above 0 celsius. Still, I had a...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 17 – 5th June, 2017 Shepparton (09:41) 80.15 km 16.4 km/h Seymour (16:32) 4:54 816.34 km Leaving Shepparton, on the A39, bound for Seymour. Today’s ride was pretty simple – remain on the one road, all the way from Shepparton to...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 16 – 4th June, 2017 Benalla (09:55) 63.25 km 17.5 km/h Shepparton (14:17) 3:37 736.19 km I left this morning, just before 10:00, after being glued to the TV news – another terrorist attack in the UK (this time, London). Having spent...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 15 – 3rd June, 2017 Corowa, NSW (09:06) 86.27 km 18.1 km/h Benalla, Victoria (15:50) 4:46 672.94 km Back on the bike again! If I wanted warm weather, I certainly chose the wrong time of year to do this! However, in keeping with the Fight MND...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Days 13 & 14 – 1st & 2nd June, 2017 Corowa 0 km 586.67 km After reaching Corowa, on the 31st of May, I decided to take a couple of rest days. I stayed with a friend, who is a minister at one of the local churches. On the 1st of June, Day...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 12 – 31st May, 2017 Albury (09:44) 56.93 km 17.7 km/h Corowa (14:14) 3:13 586.67 km Today’s ride was to be a relatively short one – only about 56 km. After a breakfast of bacon and eggs, I set off at 09:45 with a temperature of...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2017 Day 11 – 30th May, 2017 Albury 0 km 529.74 km I decided that today would be a rest day. Which was probably a good idea, as it’s been raining all day. I decided to go walkabout, for a couple of hours, and take a few photos. Just down from...