Taking the long route to the coffee shop

It never gets easier, you just go faster. — Greg LeMond

Some days are diamonds …

I had a great weekend, on and off the bike. It’s Tuesday now but I’m still buzzing about how good the weekend was.

The road-bike riding bit, first.

Start Start Start Start: Nick Early stages of climb Early stages of climb Alpaca Farm Alpaca Farm Birds of a feather Descending Descending Descending Breakfast at Canungra

Saturday, OMG-its-very-early. A group of the South Bank bunch meets at BWL’s place, loads into three cars and heads down to Canungra, for an assault on O’Reillys (Green Mountains is the proper placename, but its universally known as O’Reillys).

The ride to O’Reillys is about 35 km: 10km to the base of the climb, a steady 13km climb to the next landmark, the alpaca farm, then a plateau section before the road kicks up again through rainforest to the guest-house and Lamington NP camping ground.

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