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@frank9755, is the second part of the race much tougher from now? Just thinking about what Abdullah has to come.
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On paper they both look horrible.. be interesting to hear your thoughts frank
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@frank9755, is the second part of the race much tougher from now? Just thinking about what Abdullah has to come.
I don't really know as I only got as far as Geelong (just before Melbourne) when it all went bad, so I didn't do the big climbs.
The nullarbor was tough because the headwind was quite strong and relentless, all day every day.
I got a tailwind through the coorong so that was easy, probably have me an extra 70km distance.
What I can say is that I was starting to feel apprehensive about the latter stages. Mainly it was I was under massive time pressure. And Partly it was that the step up from a ride of about 2 weeks (at my speed) to 3 weeks was more of a big deal mentally than I had expected. Also I was a bit scared of doing the climbs with so many Kms in my legs I had been really slow on the climbs I had done, out of Adelaide and on the great ocean road. And finally the cold, it had been cold in Victoria and I didn't want any more of it.
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frank9755
I went to a caravan park in Millicent (after finding the hotel that I had booked on booking.com at 8:15pm all locked up) and thought about it, but there wasn't any spot that grabbed me. So went and slept in a field outside town where a bit quieter.
In the remote areas there is often a campsite / rest area on the edge of a town. A couple of times I slept on the picnic tables that they have.
I did a couple of nights on benches, one in a street and one outside a roadhouse that was meant to have been open.
One night on the grass in a park in the middle of a biggish town.
I just did one night actual bush camping in the middle of nowhere, basically in an ants nest.
I had four nights in hotels and one that I rode right through