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The guys completed their 1000km bike ride in a time of 1003.7 km in 49h 21mins. They climbed 7217 meters over a period of 8.5 days and rode the entire distance without a break day at all. Very commendable for two old bullets. Hats off to Mark Johnson and Alan Crundall on an outstanding performance…

Day 14 was from Mt Romance to Denmark – 76km and 5hrs 18min in the saddle. To avoid jail time I had a deep and meaningful with John, who agreed to hold back his fine form a little and not to egg on Paul into a race. This resulted in making this ride a little…

Today we rode from Walpole to Mt Romance (such a lovely name for a tortuous journey!) Total distance covered was 74km, total Elevation was 1100m and total time in the saddle was 5hrs 45min. My bottom is now starting to protest loudly about the amount of time in the saddle and is definitely not looking…

Day 11 I’m glad I’m writing this down as right now, one day blends into the next and with my razor sharp memory (haha!) this will be a great record. Today was supposed to be a 70km day and due to some lack lustre work from Paul Cutler, we ended up doing an extra 8kms,…

90 km covered today with Alan having suffered his 5th puncture. He is firmly under orders to now buy tubeless tyres to avoid similar issues next year! We camped out in a backwaters town called Cracow. A small mining town with a resident population of 34! Hotel Cracow is THE town Center and currently host…

Thank goodness, we decided to do an extra 15kms yesterday, to shorten the day down to 70kms! Richard Yates joined me for the first 40km and we scored a $10 donation found on the trail. That spurred us on! We rode onto the Donnelly river, for 10kms which was spectacular, through the start of the…

The regular reports coming from Zimbabwe are full of the distressing kind of news that comes from the worsening situation there which is being felt particularly by the elderly: One of our long-time beneficiaries, Stuart, died on Sunday morning, with cause of death most likely being perforations in the stomach and lungs plus numerous other…

Yesterday was supposed to be a rest day, with only a 28km ride into Nanup and then today, a 85km ride to Manjimup. The suggestion was to take on another 15km, yesterday, which was fairly steep uphill to make day 8 a bit easier, which is what we did. We followed the old rail line…

The reports from Zimbabwe are full of the distressing kind of news that comes from the worsening situation there which is being felt particularly by the elderly: Romaine I visited and assessed Romaine (75) who lives in one of the retirement complexes.  She was very excitable and angrily expressive and unhappy about having to ask…

I have been sent some wonderful photos, contributed by almost everyone. I reckon they can’t be trying hard enough, if they have time to take happy snaps! First up, we have a check in from Julia, the one and only support person for the guys over in Queensland, who really wanted to ride with the…