I rode the M2M on the weekend. I managed to ride 191km in the 24 hours as part of 2 teams that rode togather. The ride started in Echuca at 10:45 saturday and rode through to Hmilton early sunday morning and then to Port Fairy from 7:30 in the morning. The saturday daylight hours where with a strong south west wind and we were mainly headed south west. A bummer the wind. I did ride on section with a tailwind and we sat on about 40km and had a great ride for about 10km.
The wind drpped right off in the dark and we were told to take a large hop along the road as many other teams had do earlier due to the wind. The night rides were great. At one stage 4 of us rolled for 8 km at 28km average and then joined the back of a pack at ovr 30km for over 10km until our section finished. Got off the bike elated.
We all rode to Port Fairy (90km) by being dropped the distance out we wanted to ride. I rode 60km with 2 others. David and Brenda. Davind was a good rider and we took turns as well as joining other packs. Brenda was wearing thin and is a smaller build then I. She was fine on the back but quickly dropped speed when in front. We nicknamed her backpack and she stayed there most of the way.
In all a good weekend ride only spoilt by the headwind on the saturday. Will I do it again? Probably.
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