In the Beginning... There was an Exercycle...
FINALLY!! I'm back on dry land again :) Hello North Island!! Was a good ride tonight, watching the Crusaders win against the Stormers in Christchurch. The exciting bits of the game certainly made me cycle a bit faster.
I managed a respectable 25.67 km tonight, which I am really rather pleased with as I did a 10 km real world hill walk this morning. I am not kidding when I say that the first 5 km were straight up! Of course the second 5 km were straight down again. I wasn't sure how the old legs would hold up to a ride this evening. Still, I am pretty pleased with the result. My total distance covered so far is 2164.92 km.
As I mentioned, I came ashore today in Wellington, and have discovered that the program I'm using to map my journey on my cycle will not allow me to follow roads that are normally closed to cyclists (eg, motorways). This has meant that I had to take a roundabout sort of trip through Wellington to get onto a road that was heading north.
I have left Wellington Central behind, and travelled through Johnsonville tonight. The end of my journey tonight has me finishing on the outskirts of Tawa, which I understand is Wellington's northernmost suburb. It's a lovely wee valley suburb, separated from the city proper by the hilly terrain, yet linked by road and rail. And just a bit pretty with the autumn colours in the trees. Not a bad spot to stop for today I think.
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