Days 41 - 50

In the beginning.... there was an exercycle....

This section saw me achieve some milestones. I am topping 25 km per session now, as illustrated in my travel time for this 10 day bracket. 252.02 km travelled in only 10 sessions! Not only that, but on Day 44, I finally broke the 1000 km travelled mark. It's taken 45 days, but I've come quite a ways.

What really topped it was a Personal Best of 26.16 km travelled on Day 49. Was pretty excited about that. Now I have a new motivator. Not only to see how far I've travelled, but to see how much distance I can clock up in my 45 minute sessions. Am feeling pretty confident with myself right now.

This is almost becoming an addiction. I am really enjoying getting on the bike almost every night now, and belting out my 45 minutes. It's a little bit of "me" time every day. I'm finding I'm sleeping better, and I am feeling better in myself too. And of course there's the added bonus of having shed a further kg by this point.

By day 50, I have travelled a total distance of 1169.88 km. Where has my trip taken me this time? Let me tell you of all the exciting places I've virtually been. As you will recall from my previous post I was just south of Kingston. From there I headed north alongside Lake Wakatipu until I reached Queenstown. Queenstown is a real touristy stop, there's lots to do and some pretty scenery to take in on the way. From there it was on through Arrowtown, through Gibbston and Cromwell, the stonefruit capital of New Zealand. At Cromwell the roads head more northerly again, so it was up and through Tarras then back towards the west towards Wanaka. From Wanaka, I finish this leg in Mt Aspiring National Park.

My route here is a little meandering as there are a fair few mountains to navigate between. This area was made famous by the filming of Lord of the Rings movies, and it really is God's Own movie set. There are rugged mountains, wide plains, natural river terraces, alpine bowls, blue opalescent glacier-fed lakes. The scenery is from tussock grassland and orchards/wineries to alpine forests. It's a great illustration of the diversity of the environment that we live in every day.