Vanderpants Oz Tour

Distance: 71.76 – TOTAL SO FAR – 2126km’s

Avg Spd: 14.1

Max Spd – 57

Saddle Time: 5:03 – Total Saddle Time – 133:47

Elevation: 1138mtrs – massive

No music today and no quote – Vanderpants is buggered haha no music was listened to but lots of sweat was lost. I promise the quotes will be back tomorrow

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Hi Everyone,

I’ll try my best to summarise today – better than last post hahaha – I suck at making things short sharp and shiny but what kind of blog would that be…I did this then I done that – BORrrrrrring. LOL

Today was the three H’s….Hot, Hilly and Headwinds – all the best things you wish for hahaha. I was happy with my efforts today – i slogged out 1138 mtrs on a heavy mothership – I am done but looking forward to zonking in a minute. I felt like I climbed for 30km’s and that’s no joke. As you’re descending down hills and you see the otherside going up, generally, as you approach, and as you go farrrrrrrk, the opposing uphill kind of flattens out like a bridge closing one of it’s sides but here – you go ‘farrrrrrrrrk’ and they don’t do that lovely ‘vanderpants bridge euphemism’ – they are as bad as they seem as you approach hahaha. A lot fo the climbs I could hear my heart beat so loud, like a hammer hitting a brick wrapped in cloth – I could hear it in my ears hahahaha. Lunch was spent by a lagoon and i tried my new miniespresso machine out – heavy but small and holy crapola it was yummy – great purchase

I stuffed up my water a bit and was down to 500ml with two hours left. Not enough in the heat and for climbing. I got rid of 2 litres earlier as I thoguht the next town would have water but, the town was 1km off the main road and during my huge decent, i totally missed it and 5km’s later i realised and I was like – hmmmmmm do i climb a huge 5km hill for possible water or do I kick on……I chose to kick on and 15km’s later there was a town 8km’s out of my way……hmmmm yes i’ll give it a shot – I struck gold – a tiny shop in the sticks who would’ve thought. So good – filled up and ate some hot chips and off I went….feeling MUCH better. You know the hills are steep when a car passes and you smell their brakes or clutch haha.

another two hours later and here I am in the pub smashing a meal because I couldn’t be bothered cooking my meal tonight….that will be tomorrow – i’m off to find a campsite near the river somewhere hopefully.

PS – people talk about snakes and spider and murders but these loody massive (Gherns and I call them Buzz 180’s) due to their size are HAZARDOUS…. I think it’s a carpenter bee but i’m not sure. they have done the most damage than anything hahaha

– hit me at 75kmph and they hurt like a bullet
– hit me in the head causing me to fall on my bike and break my mirror
– hit me in the head again causing me to lose half my hot chips
– made me duck one then trip over my tent

these things will be the death of me – noone told me this hahaha

see you tomorrow all and lots of love

Vanderpants OUT!!