Day 4: Beyond "Hope" and "Hope"-less, until . . . . .
August 20th 2019 It was an early start today, We promised ourselves to be out by 7am, needing to climb a mountain and cover 140kms.
We left at 7:30am.
This was partly due to Jeff starting the day by taking the early lead in the puncture count with a slow leak overnight.
I had worked out that our 46km ride up the mountain gaining 1200 odd meters averaged out at about a 3% gradient - now that's not too bad
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