Guilt. That's what it is Tracey. Guilt plain and simple. I was going to
claim the regular deluge was the reason but I know Coffs has been worse.
There's no excuse. The tandem is going rusty in the garage. We have done
the odd half bike ride. I set up an obstacle course - offset cones,
swerve and recover, figure of 8 etc. Cait used her older brother's
racing BMX- she had never ridden a bike that was so much fun. Turned
into Evil Knievel on the spot. More like Casey Stoner than Cadel Evans.
Until she tried a corner with about 70 degrees of lean and ended in a
heap. But nothing as intrepid as you and Mark. You are putting us all to
shame.

Keep it up.

OTOH I have been following the Giro. Having the last day as a time trial
was pretty mean. Not quite the same as the Tour's last day. SBS seems to
have let us down with the Dauphine Libere - at least I cant find it on
the multiple SBS channels there seems to be these days. But I guess that
doesnt really count.

Chris




Tracey and Marc wrote:
> In honour of our 20th anniversary (well, that's what we're telling the
babysitters anyway), we're doing a tandem tour sans kids in July!
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> We're hitting the grandparents in Sydney up for 4 nights childminding.(They
don't realise it's that many nights yet.. maybe we'd be better telling them
three nights, then ringing in to say 'oh damn, we're not going to make it back'.
[We're down in Sydney that first weekend of the school hols for netball State
Age, then the day after that, we're pulling the disappearing act.
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> Anyway proposed route is.. ex-Sydney, specifically Pennant Hills. Going to
ride to Bobbin Head and catch ferry service to Patonga, then head to Terrigal
for the first night. Next day to Newcastle. Then we're heading across to
Wollombi, and then the last night we plan to get to Wiseman's Ferry. Hopefully
will still have the energy and desire to head back up to Central Mangrove, then
back down the Old Pacific Hwy, through Brooklyn, and back to Penno. There's
always the train if we fall short!
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> Total around 550km I think.
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> Front panniers ordered (I think he's got that covered), and credit card
primed. Seeing it's school holidays, going to book the accommodation. Got
Wollombi sorted - that's the hardest one by the looks of it, particularly
ensuring we can find dinner! Would be nice to be a bit less structured, but
them's are breaks when you have a small window of opportunity.
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> In other Schmidt cycling news, Marc, Zoe and I went on a 110km ride with the
Bentleys and a bunch of others from Grafton, up to Maclean, and basically round
Woodford Island, via Brushgrove pub. Pretty flat. Older two girls declined to
come, so Marc rode the Cannondale tandem with Zoe, and I rode my half bike.
Martin and Di were talking about Liz and Dave coming up and doing that ride
sometime soon, so Marc and I would probably try to wangle doing it too. Mind
you, this just before the flooding up there - a few days later much of where we
rode would have been under water!
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> How is everyone, btw? Been a bit quiet on here lately!
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