I am sooooo tired!!! It amazing just how much the Smiddy challenge takes out of you both physically and mentally.after 5 days on the road fatigue is definitely setting but we are feeling strong on the bike and are actually riding better now than when we started last Saturday.
Today we road 192kms from Blackwater to Claremont which saw us turning the peddles for 6 hrs 23 mins at an average speed of 28.2kph.
Today we reached a milestone when on the road about 10km north of Capella Sharky let out one if his legendary cries this to let the peleton know that we had just passed the 1000km mark for the trip. As he did I thought about what we had achieved so far...what would normally take us to cover in a month had been done in 4 and a half days.
The stage today was relatively flat and hence there are no tales of legendary climbing feats by Dammo or spectacular time trialing by Gav. In fact the only only two notable efforts by the Cyc'd boys involved Kent almost bringing himself and a few other riders down when he failed to replace his water bottle correctly after a drink and subsequently saw it almost jam in his rear before becoming an obstacle for the other riders. Thankfully Sharky came to the rescue ANC picked it meaning that Kent had only a very short ride back to the peleton.
Gav had a flat and needed to fix it before continuing on which meant he couldn't ride back on but rather he need to do some VAN time which raised a few eye brows and resulted in him getting some grief mainly from Katie.
We are being billetted again this evening which is great.
Tomorrow is just 175km and we are looking forward to another great day on the Ross to Townsville.
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