Day one started out around 5am leaving from home at Chippo and going to Hornsby to commence the ride. The whole way it poured with rain. It stopped just long enough for us to unload our gear get checked in and started riding.
After rolling along the old pacific hwy and down to the hawesbury river the whole peleton waited at the bottom of Mount White for a police escort to the top. Apparently the is a popular road for hoons (car and motorbike) to test their vehcile to the limit. It was a great climb from the bottom right to the top where morning tea was waiting. MMMMM yum, the whole peleton got really spread out over the climb by some 30 mins or more. (I was in the first group so first dibs on morning tea.
After refuelling we followed the rolling hills and back roads to Yarawonga and down in the valley behind Wyong. Really beautiful country side and the sound of Bluebirds after the rain was a good sign that the rest of the ride would be dry.
We got to the campground around 3.30pm (after 5 flats and 1 broken spoke in our group, not me luckily) and set up our tents and got ready for a big well deserved dinner. We have our offici8al riding uniform however today we are wearing our Coffstri outfits in support of all our frinds from the Tri club who are competing in Ironman in Port Macquarie today. Go guys you've done the hard part (ie all the training, today is the fun bit, when you get to go out on the oourse and have the cheers from all the crowd.)
Michelle and I will be thinking of you whilst we make our way towards Buladelah today, should be nice and easy and even better if the weather co-operates.
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Cheers,
Micheddie!
