ride4acure

Tuncurry was brilliant staying with Fiona, having a wonderful presentation from Seachange Op Shop of $1000 for ride4acure! Wow how generous. Thanks to Christine for organising the fundraiser and the generous community of Seachange! And of course to Fiona for generously opening her home and heart to us. Fiona knew Hannah through horsemanship camps.  

What a fantastic ride, huge long hills and awesome big long coasts down the other side! The biggest longest hills I’ve ridden yet-65 kms in just over 3 hours of riding and averaged 20.5 kms per hour which is my best yet. But of course this ride isn’t about the speed, I think of Hannah all the time and every other young person living with the uncertainty of cancer and in particular melanoma. Every day I meet people who have lost loved ones, or are themselves living with this disease. Esther had a moment the other day where she said “Mum your riding 1500 kms for melanoma, that’s the same number almost that die each year from it!” A very sad statistic, this is the same as our national road toll. The generosity of strangers continues to stagger me. People daily generously giving donations in support of ride4acure.

Today I had Fiona Murray from Tuncurry where we’d been staying ride with me from Coolongalook to Buladelah (a 30 km stint along Pacific Highway), it was the first time I’ve ridden with someone else, and Fiona is an actual experienced long distance bike rider! She was fabulous to ride with, we yacked along side by side as the shoulder was in most parts a couple of metres wide, Fiona also could ride and take photo’s! Now that impressed me, I would’ve ended up in the table drain or under a b-double! Started to rain in the last 10 kms, so much so I sailed right past the caravan park we’re staying in tonight at Buladelah and had to turn around at the bottem of the hill and come back up hill to camp! Like I hadn’t had enough hills today! I’m stoked with how I went today and my body is really feeling fantastically strong. I’m doing plenty of stretching, Fiona gave me a great massage yesterday and I’m on fire today! Am heading to Tea Gardens Hotel tomorrow, forecast is for thunderstorms/rain and strong 43 km SE winds! aagghhh….. and 55kms to cover! Not the best conditions. Have found a fantastic weather site online that gives me all the info. I have to confess though in my naivity I didn’t know if the wind direction was  telling mewhere it was coming from or where it was going! Now that is right up there eh!  Esther made it safely with her horses to Quambone and is coming back to Kemspey to pick up her other horse then heading back to Wagga. Goodie I will hopefully get to see her. And thumbs down and  shame on Sharon McIver driving past me today and not stopping to say g’day and give me a hug from home! LOL :-))

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