The good and the bad of cycling. One picture shows a puncture being attended nto in the middle of nowhere. The other is lunch set up ready to be attacked by hungry cyclists.
Today was a run of about 165km, so yesterday was just a warmup. We got on the road at about 7:30am and after a modest climb out of Northam we had rolling country with no serious climbs all the way. (So its not really worth putting an altitude profile up here.) Around 8am a good stiff North Westerly came up and we were able to fly along all day. At times we were rolling along the flat at 35kph and simply rolling the pedals over. We averaged over 27kph for the day. That is a really good speed for the recumbents as Roger says they'd never under any conditions exceeded 25kph on a run before.
The morning was practically cloudless, but about lunch time a small front passed over from the west and sprinkled very lightly at that time. Later in the day a few heavy showers could be seen ahead of us, and Eric in tghe support vehicle who had run on ahead to contact the newspaper in Merredin reported raining cats and dogs where he was. Fortunately by the time we got there the system had moved on and we got no rain at all.
The support vehicles (and a few of the riders) are in contact with each other and the truckies via CB radios. At one point along the way a local farmer in his office popped up and said he'd been listening to us for a couple of hours and was able to give us a few bits of useful info about the locality. He offered us a spot sheltered from the wind for lunch, but we'd already had it.
The local newspaper photographer photographed us on the road a few km out of Merredin and then again when we stopped at our accommodation at the local high school.
A really good day despite the four puncture stops.
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