Today was the final ride, hard to believe after 8 months of training and nearly 12 months of planning. We have now raised over $10,500 which is just fantastic.
Today we took an easy ride from Berry on our way to Wollongong. It is quite funny to think that ride is so easy now after so much training and then the ride itself. It was a very easy trip and it wouldnt have been complete without a big downpour at Kiama. As if we hadnt had enough rain...
We were planning a stop in Shellharbour for a coffee but we ran out of time so we just headed on to Wollongong and it was quite strange riding through familiar roads again. We headed back on the normal training route that we had used for months.
We arrived at the Wollongong lighthouse at 1pm and it was great to see family, friends and work collegues there. We were also met by Tourism Wollongong and the Illawarra Cancer Carers who later put on a bbq. Four sausage sandwhiches later I was happy:)
Thanks to everyone who has donated and supported us. Thanks to Dad who drove one of the support vehicles and took hundreds of photos. In the next week I will put up some photos on this blog. They all tell a great story.
Also thanks to Josh and Minnie who drove the other support car.
I would also like to give a special thank you to Aaron, Erika and Paul who jumped on this idea of mine and really helped it work. Without their help it would not have been as successful as this. Aaron, thanks to you for forcing me out to train during the cold, wet, windy, winter months to get hundreds of kms under the belt. Without that I would not have been able to keep the motivation up as much as I did.
So, all in all it has been very successful and it was great to be a part of.
Cheers
Carl
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