Cradle Mountain

February 9th 2015
Yesterday we rode 56 miles from Penguin to Sheffield. Oh what a day! Hills, hills and more hills, relentlaess. We all got in like zombies with jelly legs. The mileage must se like chicken feed but it was up and down over several vallys and one hard piece, of perhaps 5k, on a dirt road. We rode down into Gunns Plains with a brief tail wind along a beautiful new piece of Tarmac, to visit the Wings ... read more

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Richard Dugdale

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I am a retired engineer, born in 1945, who loves cycle touring. I started by riding Lands End John O Groats for charity. Followed by C2C, the Three Towers (Blackpool - London -Paris Blackpool), European section of North Sea Cycle Route (Rotterdam to Bergen, 3,500 km), several sportives and trips to Spain and the Alps, Slovenia, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Japan, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (India), Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Australia, including Tasmania and New Zealand. Kyushu Japan, USA, Republic of Ireland, Germany and Sicily. I ride two days every week with some retired riders and usually lead a... full info

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