Fair point, a little bit of feeling sorry for myself probably doesn't match up with other injuries. I'm an ex competition swimmer, so high levels of fitness aren't unfamiliar to me. But I think that's also what hurt about it this time. It was was the knowledge of how fast I could/should/would have been going if I hadn't stopped, so it's been about a month or so getting back into the mentality of "just riding" and working at it so it can come back. A battle which I've only really been winning, in earnest, for about a week now.
That and I am a masterful shitposter up here, so I've gotta at least show up and be fast enough to outrun half of the comments I've made...it's a self preservation thing.
Awaba, Tingira, Glenrock, Killingworth, can I sneak in Ourimbah?
Then for the ones within a day's drive, Thredbo, Bright, Orange, Armidale, Kiwarrack, Falls Creek, etc.
It's because Alice doesn't have big mountains that it's more draining. You don't just settle into a pace and roll up the hill and then get a big descent, you've gotta attack them, constantly to keep moving. Really different from slogging out 20mins and punching out 600m of elevation in a low gear to getting 300m in 10-15m segments over an hour. Alice is fucked without fitness.