22 March 2025

Over the years I have often overtaken heavily laden cyclists slogging up hills and wondering if their having fun, well, I have the answer, and it’s a resounding no! It’s all effort and pain!!!

Beauty Point to Latrobe, no way to avoid the hills. Fun freewheeling down them, but a laden bike quickly slows on the next hill….

Pushing a bike up a hill is equally not fun, but it gives the legs a rest, besides, it’s dangerous when you’re travelling so slow and wobbling into oncoming traffic.

Stopping every five kms for the last fifteen. Absolutely bushed, turns out my diversions to stay on bitumen turned out to be an 82km day.

After a bread and cheese tea, I’m in bed by 5:30pm, dreaming of a pack on my back and climbing in the mountains🤣🤣