Month: March 2018

Not staying here though, sounds like someone got robbed last night!

Right, made it to SA. The wind has not been kind, but it hasn’t been kind to anyone else either. Well needed lunch break right now though. I’m well behind schedule, and the areas giving me issues include:

• Neck
• Knee
• Achilles
• Posterior

They are all a bit inter-related, and I’m really not sure which is the biggest issue right now, but so far none of them have actually stopped me, so time to get back on the road!

Right, day 1 is pretty much over. Didn’t go perfectly to plan, beginning with knee pain less than an hour in, and then having my light mounting bracket snap a few hours after that, and then realising that the charge cable that has worked perfectly for years and still did last week had chosen today to fail.

There should be a light in this picture…

Happily though the knee seemed to stabilise with a bit of nursing, and I was able the reattach the light with a special high tech engineering solution, known to those of us in the industry as “zip-ties”, and I had another option for charging cables, so with a bit of stuffing around I managed to get 428km in today. I’ve just stopped for dinner and am basically done, I will just roll down the road to find somewhere to sleep.

Coverage is pretty patchy here, so posts might be few and far between!

Rowan

It’s nearly time! Less than two days and I’ll be heading off. Been enjoying WA in the meantime, but now it is time to move into panicked packing mode! Happily, things are pretty close to ready…

The bit that I like though is looking at the tracking page. A few days ago if you looked at https://indianpacificwheelrace2018.maprogress.com/ you saw a map of the world, because riders were spread everywhere. Check it now though and it is centered tightly around Fremantle. It’s getting exciting!

That is of course the link to follow the ride, so I hope you’ll all check it regularly and come out to wave if I happen to be riding by your house!