Tennent Creek Barckly Agencies Tour

So I race twice at the new TDZ 20km handicap (replaces the old Secrett Rd event so popular for so long in Darwin) and get talked into going down to Tennent Ck to race a two day tour!!! Andy Barcroft is taking his work van down with the bikes and the rest in a few cars will go down on the Friday. There's a small prologue on Saturday morning followed by a road race in the afternoon. Sunday morning there is a criterium then BBQ lunch and we drive home.

What does this mean to me? Well I have 4 weeks to get some serious training miles in :) My motto for this event will be "If you keep your expectations low you will always succeed"

It was back to Plan 'A', The Kuranda Range

In a mad panic Mum rings me to tell me that there is some big festival up at Port Douglas on the day we were supposed to ride up to Port Douglas/Mossman and that 20,000 people are expected there on the Friday night. So it's back to riding up the Kuranda Range. Famous for it's traffic and lack of shoulders on the side of the road so we were a little nervous and as it turns out rightfully so.....it was crazy. We got off and walked a couple of times when we heard trucks approaching but it was so bad that there was hardly any room for that. Anyway the point of this post is, if you every get the urge to ride the Kuranda Range, dont do it at lunch time, maybe a dawn but not lunch time.

To make things a little more exciting Sandy had a bit of a tummy bug going on on the day we flew over. The sort of problem that makes you nervous if you are too far from 'facilities' if you know what I mean. She had tummy cramps, had no food and also dehydrated and put in a stoic effort to climb the range. She's a trooper.

At the top of the range with a big sigh of relief we found a caravan/camp park that was absolutely beautiful in the rain forest.