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Another day, another 90k bike ride !!!
I found that after my last ride, I was dead, so I had a day off and visited art galleries in Ballarat and Castlemaine. As this was a huge gold mining area, the museums were interesting to
And now the interesting bit !!!
It has gone cold, I had to wear arm warmers !!! I took my usual route out and saw my first emus. There were two of them, just hanging out on a property. I was going quite slow as there was a headwind, 29ks in the first hour, I suppose that is ok, but, well, not much you can say.
I was heading in a direction of another mountain, my 10th in 17 days. Mount Franklin, an old volcano with a road up the side, and to be honest, I was struggling to get there, the wind was that strong, I was also feeling cold due to this fact.
Eventually, the climb came into view so I took the obligatory photo at the top
On the way down, I clocked the 2 hour mark and my average was down to 24.5ks. 20ish ks in the second hour had killed it, but on the downhill, I did see 60ks !!!
Turning onto the highway, the wind was behind me, so I opened up my legs and motored along. I was sitting on 51/52ks for a while and my average just went up and up, so by the time I arrived in Castlemaine, I was up to 28.6ks !!! I had pulled 37ks in the the third hour without trying !!! The winds were crazy !!!
Not long after, I arrived back at the house with my 90ks done, so hopefully tomorrow, the temp and th winds will stay down