2018 Cloudride Bikepacking mega adventure
I arrived at Cabramurra at 9:30am Easter Monday.
700 km in with 300 km to go until Canberra.
I departed Jindabyne around 2 pm on Sunday after attempting to get my dynamo hub working again with the help of the mechanic at the bike shop.
It was a long hard 100km slog ahead from Jindabyne to Cabramurra.
At around 10 hours in I found myself not being able to think about anything else but where to sleep.
I was scanning everywhere that would make a good spot to rest and settled on a bunch of knee high springy bushes which I laid my bivvy and sleeping bag on without even inflating my mattress.
Sleep came quick and around 2 hrs later I awoke and got underway. I don’t even know how much longer I was able to proceed but progress was painfully slow.
Much of the darkness was spent selling the idea to myself to keep going keep going keep going, don’t think just do, get the job done.
It was now that I decided on a second sleep, I wasn’t making much sense and was dead tired and totally over it, so I pulled over, put the bike down, and once
Ironman Western Australia - finding my WHY
It has been a damn long time between blog posts.
After a crash I had in the Cloudride with concussion upon hitting a wombat my purpose for doing ‘epic shit’ kind of wavered. I felt that I may never ride my bike again in anger, my brain felt like it had changed.
So I got stuck into what I knew. Time to rebuild, hop on the indoor trainer, walk my dog, rest, rebuild and see what came of this without focusing on what I could not do.
This was in April. I spent about 12 weeks moving from indoor trainer to
My Dirty Secret.
It is 11 am Monday morning. I have 1hr to write this, well that is my goal!
It's a blog about my bike, it's a dirty secret I have. I take my road bike on the dirt and I do it deliberately and often. Yes, I have a CX bike, and 3 mountain bikes but this bike...well she is good.
She is Avril the Avail. Available for anything.
Her birth name is Liv Avail Advanced Pro - what a mouthful!
Earlier this year I had my eyes on adding this versatile bike to the stable.
She has disc brakes and a much comfier
Being Fit and Able for anything that comes my way
The Story of the Surf Coast Trail Marathon.
Back when I was 16 or 17 I did a 10km fun run around Eastern Gardens, it hurt like hell. But somehow I would go out for for random runs even though I was fairly bad at it. No talent scouts ever tapped me on the shoulder as I plodded my way around the streets of my neighbourhood of Whittington. I was not Lee Troop who was also pounding the pavement at the same time and is only 1 month younger than me. He ran so good he went to the Olympics
The 2017 Cloudride Bike Packing Experience
Its has been 7.5 weeks since my crash resulting in concussion and memory loss, time off the bike and all that drama at Easter on the Monaro 1000 Cloudride.
My biggest regret is not riding along and giving myself 7 days to complete it, instead rushing in head first trying to smash myself and race it.
The entire region is amazing, so many pictures I wish I had taken, so many places I wish I had stopped and soaked it in.
To be honest I am not at all excited about writing about it. The ride itself was quite big, consumed a