Indian Pacific Wheel Race - IndyPac - IPWR

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frank9755 in reply to @veganjoseph

Pawel is laying down the hurt. He never seems to stop - and I seem to stop too often. Knee pain is back when my body cools down. I guess I should just stay moving but I find that quite hard (this is my first bikepacking race).

Apparently Pawel lost all his spare cogs though! All he has now is 17 and 18 tooth cogs on his wheel with a 46t chainring. Apparently he isn’t bothering to replace them either. The last 1500km is going to be interesting...

You can only ride your own race - what Pawel does is out of your control. And in the long run it doesn't matter. When you meet an Aussie in future and tell them you've ridden across their country they'll be impressed. They won't say 'Yeah, but did you beat Pawel?'

Staying moving is the hardest thing! So many reasons to stop, even sometimes that you just forgot to keep going. That Oppy quote about 'cycling isn't hard, just push a pedal down, then another one and repeat' is so true

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hippy in reply to @frank9755

When you meet an Aussie in future and tell them you've ridden across their country they'll be impressed. They won't say 'Yeah, but did you beat Pawel?'

I like this. :)

(evil hippy is totally going to ask him if he beat Pawel now just for the lols)

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