Today was day 6 and going to bed last night we knew it was going to be a tough tough day. We have already covered 650kms and today was another 150+km day with a lot of climbing.
We woke up to a blustery and wet day...We headed off at 7.15am and were in the middle of heavy rain by 7.20..the rain would not stop for the rest of the day.
Apart from the distance the weather made it so much harder. By lunch Paul had changed his clothes twice and Aaron once. Luckily I had got the clothing department right and had kept the worst out for the whole day. The problem was when we stopped, it was so cold that we had to get going again to keep warm but needed the rest in the legs, catch 22.
We got onto the 'tourist drive' just after Maruya which added to the kms we need to complete and we were told it was flatter so after what we had been through it looked promising. After about 5-10kms of flat stuff the hills started...again. It wa a relentless, everytime we desended there was another climb waiting and this went on for about 15-20kms. At the end we were all getting a bit fed up as the day had been so long. We arrived nearly 2 hours later than other days so with all the kit to be sorted, get dinner and so on it has been a frantic evening.
Tomorrow is another big day and then the day after is our finsl run into Wollongong which is going to be good as it is just 70kms or so.
Bed time...... knackered.
Cheers
Carl
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