Day 927 ⛅ Lorne - Apollo Bay return
@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Jul 9, 2022 · 2 minute read · Update at Jul 9, 2022 ·

100.52km / 4:29:34 / 938m / 12.0°C

My weekly escape for a long ride, it was a toss up today of whether to leave early and be back for lunch, or have bacon and eggs for breakfast with the family and then go out. The bacon and eggs won.

Very light traffic along the Great Ocean Road, the joys of the pandemic are the absence of the terrifying overseas tourists staring at the scenery and failing to deviation an inch from the line they’ve chosen on the road … or as another rider I met today said, failing to drive on the left and driving head-on into another car after nearly collecting him back in January!!!

Two patches of roadworks with traffic lights, clear skies and light breezes, near perfect weather all the way down to Apollo Bay, and company on and off with a rider who was faster than me, but who slowed to talk or stopped for photos. I’d wanted to hit 100km for the day and decided I needed to sneak in a few extra km at Apollo Bay, so out to the breakwater and along it, then around to the other one, and promptly fell off in loose wet sand. Amusingly the Garmin’s incident detector did not go off as I lay on the ground partly covered in sand, grass and mud, apparently it only chooses to do so when I brake hard and stop at traffic lights or the end of rides!

Muffin and coffee and a sit in the sun at a cafe, then retrace my route back to Lorne, again adding on a kilometre or so to get the all important triple figure distance then up the hill to the house for a late lunch of the last of the soup

Broken clouds, 7°C, Feels like 5°C, Humidity 83%, Wind 3m/s from SW - by

My 927th day in a row riding a bike, including my and astoundingly, all of 2021.

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