There has been a prominent drop in the mercury temperatures over the previous two nights.
People are wearing more cloth to bed and sleeping in the foetal position for warmth. You then try to stretch out weary legs that ache and hurt when you touch them. Grant’s making a nice little profit from his magnesium pill side hustle, we are all his customers!
Everyone has a sore body part story, huh, more so Baz and Grant today!
It was a 7km ride to our actual start this morning from the Top10 campsite. Grant called into a store to purchase some Power Aid’s for hydration along the way when Baz realized he’d left all his drink bottles back at the Top 10.
Stoically, he decided to ride back and get them. We rode forwards knowing he’d catch up at some point.
There was flat, lumpy, down and up and a combo of road and gravel.
With Baz out in front and Grant on his tail, they both missed a left turn and instead carried on right. Right up an incline and down another, whereas Hannah and I hung the left on the proper direction.
We watched their dots heading towards Fielding.
And were unpacked, drying out the tents from the nights condensation and soaking up the late arvo sun when they finally turned up at the next stop, a community hall at Rangiwahia.
My strava read I’d done 109 kms from A to B. There’s would have certainly recorded more with there A, B, C, D, E, F, G’s!
Bet ya their bodies were feeling it doing the extra tiki tours.
Our home offered power, a jug to boil water and a hot shower.
Hot water sooths more than one could ever imagine after a looooonnnng day in the saddle.
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