Ride for Youth: Day 2: Walpole to Pemberton
Today the terrain forecast was ‘hilly’ en route to Pemby. The day dawned clearish with some clouds off in the distance. With a full belly of breakfast we set off in the direction of the clouds and worked our way through some truly beautiful scenery through old treed forests.
Along the way there were several items of road kill - all quite ‘on-the-nose’, as well as the now ‘usual’ encouraging distractions of brown-eyes from the support crew, and many photo opportunities for the Ride for Youth Facebook page.
Each day one team is scheduled to roll out at the start of the ride, and another at the finish. Throughout the day, groups of 8 (known as the “V8s”) roll around at the front in order to protect those that need it in the peloton. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to indulge in ‘protected’ status. Today however we were on task to roll in the V8s in the second half of the route and my team (Team Mirvac) was to bring everyone home up the hills to Pemberton High School.
Unfortunately there were a couple incidents whilst on our ‘watch’ on the front. At one point some truck was antsy to overtake us and we got the signal from the support van in front to pull over quickly when we weren’t really expecting it. The sudden stopping resulted in a couple riders coming off and losing some bark. The second incident involved a pot-hole that we missed which caught a rider mid-peloton whilst they were drinking down a descent. Thankfully that was the extent of the issues today, and after all that we arrived safely in Pemberton.
Sadly, due to some constant mist/rain today, I found it neccessary to clean my bike again today before dinner. Tonight I got fined again for the car-training incident and long socks, riding my bike in a bikini yesterday (merely a quick test-ride after I cleaned it!) and having fancy rain-resistant sunglasses (oakley radars).
Stats for the day:
Distance: 129.8kms
4:34:11 tide time (ave of 28.41km/hr)
1700m of climbing
Ave HR of 138bpm (max 176bpm)
Again, please check out the Ride for Youth Facebook pages for photos and stuff!
Tags: cycling | fundraising | pemberton | ride for youth | walpole | youth focus
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