The wettest day so far. A good day for a rest day as it turns out. An opportunity to visit Margaret River and Witchcliff by car instead of bicycle.
The eco village in Witchcliff was interesting. Lots of new houses, all with water tanks. Lots of solar power.
There is an EV charger (three apparently) in the eco village, and one of the charge ports was actually useable, as long as you didn’t need to pay with paypass as that was out of service.
It’s a nice enough town.
Continue reading Rest DayThese days are not easy. Despite the distance, it’s been a difficult off road experience today. Some really wet bits because of all the rain.
We learnt that the hard way when we took the summer route to the 10 mile brook dam. As in, it’s ok in summer. Winter, not so much. And this spring it was still pretty wet.
But a nice ride overall.
And butter chicken for dinner which felt well earned.
I haven’t posted in a long while – mostly because I didn’t think there was anything much to say.
But now taking a week out for an off road holiday – its good to take the time out. Drove down here yesterday – no hassles there.
We are staying at a pretty nice Airbnb place – 4 bedroom/4 bathroom on a large lot (1.5 hectares). So nothing to complain about there
First ride was today – its been a while since doing anything off road. So this was a nice little rail trail.
I’m definitely feeling it in my legs tonight – ready to crash.
Its day three of our cycling holiday down south. I’m in a good holiday mode, which is great. It at least partially compensates for the physical discomfort of the last two days of riding.
Day one was a heavy day. 3805 calories on the wahoo counter. 45.7 Km with about 800 metres of climb. Hard work.
I think this should have been the harder day, but I was still tired from day one so I didn’t push quite as hard. Mostly because I couldn’t.
But technically a longer and harder ride. At least this time I didn’t need medical evacuation from the trail and made it all the way to Manjimup
944 metres of climb over 50km of off road trail. I guess the satisfaction at the end of the ride was worth it.
Well, its been a nice break over christmas. I can’t complain really.
I’ve managed to get a few bike rides in, which is nice. And really its been pretty good over the christmas and new year period.
I’m getting ready for the onslaught of 2022 – its hard to know what to expect. But an overloaded health care system is pretty likely once we open the borders. I think the next few weeks will be a revelation for how the health care systems will cope (or perhaps won’t cope) and a marker for things to come.
So the work side of things will be fairly interesting over the next few weeks. We shall see.
A nice easy ride today, drive into Albany then ride around the town
This place is awesome. It’s the last night here for one of us, so we have found this brewery in the middle of nowhere.
So have a number of the locals.
Just walked to the top here. It’s one heck of a climb
400 metres up. Just what you want to do after a three hour hills ride. 🙂
A really great run. Pretty wet at the start, then much better as we went on.
Having the day in Denmark. Recovering from the ride yesterday. That was a hard one.
Hitting the Japanese here today
Yesterday’s ride below:
