Day 3 - Yea Ride

Lunch at the Flowerdale pub.... enjoying good food in the sun

Steve Chen powering up the hill on the ride to Flowerdale

....and here is Gary!!!

At the top of the big climb of about 10 kms.... great effort by all!!!

Morning tea with coffee scrolls at Strath Creek .... good stop to have ahead of more challenging riding later!

The group at the start of the the ride today

 Today’s ride was starting at about 8.00am with warmer weather than yesterday.... about 12 degrees as opposed to 7 the previous day!

The ride started along the rail trail which was delightful with a good surface and gentle gradients. The turnaround point was at Kerrisdale where we rode along the King Parrot road to Flowerdale for lunch. The pub lunch was very good and the publican was very hospitable!

After lunch it was on to the ride to Yea with a 10 km climb almost straightaway!!! The gradients gradually increased as we progressed with the max gradients at 14pc which was a bit challenging!

Reaching the top was delightful and the descent into Yea was exhilarating! We were reaching speeds of over 60 kph with Rob reaching 80 kph !!!! Magnificent effort Rob!!!

We arrived in Yea at about 2.30 pm after doing about 70 kms for the day with a feeling of real achievement for the day 

Dinner was organised by Ray with pizzas from the local pizza shop delivered to the motel where we set up tables and chairs in the paved bbq area.... wonderful meal with beer and wine with good banter about all manner of topics 

We were in our rooms by about 8.30 pm looking for a good night of sleep ahead of the biggest day of riding tomorrow 

All in all a great day of riding amongst good friends.... what could be better!!!