The first riding day of the tour was meant to be an easy 50Km ride from Murray Bridge to Langhorne Creek. It turned out to be a very hard afternoon’s ride. The wind was blowing hard from the south west. The first 24km were south with a dangerous cross wind which made riding difficult. The next 24Km were due west into the wind which by now was blowing a gale. I was reduced to about 8KPH bur speeded up to about 12KPH when i was overtaken by two young women who provided me with a a wind break to close to our destination.
I would have expected to complete the ride in about two and a half hours but took four. I was not on my own as the topic of discussion that night was the wind and whay tomorrow would bring.
We had a substantial meal provided by the local football club in their club rooms and after sending my previous blog for this day went to bed early.
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