The Smiddy journey continues with Sharky's 7 in 7

With our Smiddy Challenge now over for the year I thought I might keep you updated on the progress of another Smiddy event which follows on immediately after the Smiddy Challenge known as Sharky's 7 in 7.

Firstly some background on the 7 in 7.....

Sharky's Oz 7 in 7

In 2008 Smiling for Smiddy founder Mark “Sharky” Smoothy began his seven year quest to cycle around Australia in seven stages. Each September, with the continuing support of our amazing sponsor Bottlemart, Sharky extends his 1600km “Smiddy Challenge” to include one of these stages. So far Sharky has knocked off:

• 2008 - A 3200 kilometre journey from Coolangatta on the NSW border to the tip of Queensland, Cape York, in 20 days.

• 2009 - Innisfail to Darwin in 24 days and the distance was just short of 2400 kilometres.

• 2010 – A 2400 kilometre journey from Katherine to Karratha in 24 days.

2011 is the fourth stage from Karratha in Western Australia to Esperance, which is 800 kilometres south of Perth. Total distance for the two rides combined will be 4400 kilometres over a 24 day period. The past 3 years included up to 600 kilometres of off road riding. For 2011 the dirt is gone and it is nothing but a road bike and endless kilometres of tarmac.
As you can see its an epic journey Sharky is on as he continues to raise funds for cancer research.

Over the coming weeks he will post updates on his journey and I'll post links here so that you follow his travels through WA.

You can read about day 1 of this year's 7 in 7 here:
http://www.smiddy.org.au/cms/news/Default.aspx?NewsCode=367&NewsCategoryCode=32