Good: Made it to Mangakino and five days in sight 🙂 Great conditions, cool and not much rain. Timber trail much less muddy than it was in July. Awesome descent from centre of north island (new appreciation for how hard it is going other way). Nice to finish at 6 and have some time to relax! Coastal crew and Brent C and Nathan and Craig refuelled at Mangakino and determinedly headed on.
Bad: the climb to the timber trail summit is definitely harder this way round. Legs starting to wear.
Ugly: Brent’s tent pole fell off. He went back 3km up giant hill to look for it. Luckily Brent C had retrieved them. Meanwhile, I enjoyed a rest!
New song today rotating in head Just like Fire by Pink but Selena annoyingly hanging in there.
Just stumbled on your blog. Awesome work Amanda. Your doing seriously good kms at a great rate. I like the Clint Eastwood approach 😁. I didn’t get to the start of the MG unfortunately this year. Not sure if you remember me from the regular grind….ride safe!
Thanks Steve 🙂