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Day two kicked off with the time-honoured ritual of bike cleaning—a necessary evil after the previous evening’s impromptu mud spa treatment.

The countdown to the Yarra Valley Old Legs Tour 2025 ride is well on its way with under ten days to go and the various riders having completed their training schedule.

Since completing our latest walk on 15th September, Jane and I have just visited Zimbabwe, where the daily struggle faced by ZANE’s pensioners is acute.

All Jeanie’s hard work doesn’t make enough money to pay all her bills but it pays about half she tells me – the rest comes from ZANE.

As the night grew darker and the moon turned deep red, I thought about all Zimbabwe’s connections and the invisible threads that link us together.

Please read Jim’s story which encapsulates the kind of suffering that ZANE carers deal with all the time – the story speaks for itself.

ZANE not only offers help to the old forgotten folk of Zimbabwe, but also to the impoverished children who are yet more casualties of the economic breakdown there.

I am so excited to be riding the Blue Cross again, 500 kilometres with 10,000 meters of climb, even though the hills and mountains are sure to be one year steeper.

From 15–24 November, a dedicated team of 8 cyclists from Australia and New Zealand will pedal through the stunning Yarra Valley, covering over 1,100 km in 10 days as part of the Old Legs Tour (OLT) Australia.

The reports out of Zimbabwe continue to emphasise the extremely difficult situation that the old folk find themselves in – the power cuts and water shortages are ever more difficult to deal with and, added to that, is the spiralling costs of food and medicine.