Written by Geoff Ney and
Andrew Schy
Daily Stats
By David “Stinky Dave” Colahan
Distance: 180.2
kilometres
Ride Time: 7:54 hours total, 6:10 hours riding
Ave Speed: 29.2 km/hr
Elevation: 788 m
climbed
Min Temperature: 4C
degrees
Max Temperature: 40C
degrees
The day
started with a hearty breakfast from the Myella Farm Stay crew and Captain Kevvy was getting cranky straight up because he had had
nothing to be cranky about.
The rollout was attended by the Carl, Lyn and
Imogen where Imogen was given the honour of ringing the cow bell to see us on the
way, Luckily enough Imogen did not bring her Joeys (the Myella Farm Stay takes care of little roos and brings them back to health) with her so we were able to
get the peloton rolling without any distractions.
The morning
was a brisk 4 degrees at rollout, the peloton was in high spirits, it was Hump day after all, the weather was
clear the wind was being nice to us, what was there not to like. We breezed
into Baralaba and doubled the population for a brief time.
For first
timers to the Central Queensland area, they were looking for more corners in the road and the
hot mix bitumen, but we are no longer in south east QLD. Killer decided that he
would attempt to emulate Lil’ Geeves heroic deeds and shot off the road at high
speed due to power of his snot rockets, unfortunately he was unable to execute
the re-entry to the same standard.
Ken and Ben
were having a relatively quiet day with 0 flat tyres for the day, which was a
big turnaround from the previous four days and to stop them from being bored Coolie
decided to help them out and got his protractor out and found his handle bars
were out by 2 degrees.
We hit the extremely
busy Cap Highway much to the disgust of a few of the road trains, quite a few
choice words were thrown over the UHF, the least said the better. With Garath back in peloton, and Kik back in
the mechanic’s vehicle, Carol’s nerves were given a reprieve with all vehicles
staying on the black top.
You would
think that after cycling 900 odd Km over 5 days you would have lost a bit of
weight, but thanks to the Road Crew and magnificent spreads they have put on for us
that has not been the case. The home bake, the SAO’s for morning
tea and the steak sangas for lunch, topped off by ice blocks from
the Dingo Roadhouse, was a feast worthy of royalty.
We rolled
into Blackwater a tad early thanks to favourable conditions and were very appreciative
met by a few supporters from the local community.
The huddle today
was lead today by Pottsy and Garath who was in awe of the work done by the road
crew and lead the huddle to three Smmiddy cheers which reverberated of the basketball hall.
Pottsy himself was dropping hints in a roundabout way that he would like to
ride the challenge one day, and led the three cheers for the cyclists.
The official analysis
from Cath in the Road crew, is that all the cyclists are tight arses, and there
will be no fines issued for sunburn tonight.
No comments:
Post a Comment