Month: March 2021

I did promise more on why I’m in Fremantle, and I really meant to write something good. Time has got away from me though, so instead it’s something quick. If you haven’t guessed yet, I’m doing IPWR again. It’s a small affair this year, with only nine riders making it to the start, but really that’s quite a lot, given the circumstances.

I’m still having trouble posting to my blog, the quick way doesn’t work and the slow way is slow! That means, obviously, I won’t be posting all that much, sorry.

Of course, the tracking page is up, so if you want to follow the dots you can do so at https://indianpacificwheelride2021.maprogress.com

I’m mostly ready, a few quick things to finish up then off to bed, ready to start in the morning!

Ok, I’m going to try one quick thing… if this works, it’ll be great. If it doesn’t, you may never hear from me again!

I’ve been having some trouble just lately with my website. It sort of bothers me that I have plans for all kinds of great adventures, but I can’t even seem to keep a website working, but there you go. Maybe it’ll come good soon if I ignore it for a while…

First things first: Cloudride Prologue was great. I had looked at that course ahead of time, and knew that the first 200km and the last 60 or so would be much faster on a gravel bike. Knowing the effort Steve puts into his courses though I suspected that the other part might turn out to be pretty tough. I wasn’t wrong. The country up in the Blue Mountains NP was just beautiful, but boy some of the roads were tough!

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