We need more details on this ride! How long did it take you etc.?
- Audax Australia ride, very well run I must say.
- Total time was 18h 53min. That includes stopping time.
- Start at 4am, finish around 10:50pm.
- 4 checkpoints at 70km, 105km, 170km & 220km. Food and drinks supplied.
- One section of road had just been graded. With rain was like riding through sand (about 5km)
- Had stomach troubles for last half (maybe to much water)
- Some rain in the first 150km but was quite humid.
- Lots of rain the last 150km.
- Climb up Mt Skene was wet and thick fog. Descent was the same but speed = cold.
The 220km checkpoint was after about 5km of descending Mt Skene. I wasn't in great shape, cold & wet. A toastie, and a cup of hot water and back on the bike. Was even colder descending into Licola. A couple of km along the valley (a few degrees warmer) the system was back to normalish, the worst of it was over. It wasn't a cold day, 10deg was the lowest my Garmin picked up at the top of the Mt.
- Water managed to get into my main front light so didn't work. Small front light (50 - 100 lumen maybe) was just enough to see and finish.
And cause we always forget something....
At the start and times during the ride I thought my shoes didn't feel quite right. Anyway, when finished took them off and threw them in the back of the car, didn't think much of it. At home the next day, got shoes from the car to wash and realised I had not put the soles back in the shoes from when I washed them about a week ago (still pegged to the clothes line). Also probably why me knees are a little out of whack.
