Day 5 - Beltana to Lyndhurst

With dawn breaking over the fabled Beltana Racecourse, Andrew's brain cogs had been awhir ...

Shortly after the scheduled gun time of 7.30 AM, the inaugural Beltana Handicap over 400 - 600m for bicycles was run. You will need to wait to see the video of this soon to be infamous event.

Overnight the Puncture Monster had hit again, this time with Terry and Brian's landcruiser suffering. While air was added to their front right tyre, the boys set off on yet another still and coolish morning enroute to Leigh Creek for morning tea.

We covered the sealed road at a rapid rate, until that damned Puncture Monster decided to visit Andrew again. His third puncture in a couple of days.

We stopped a couple of times and pumped air into his tyres leading into Leigh Creek, and then saw the Puncture Monster again just before Copley. Poor old Andrew couldn't take a trick today with almost more punctures than kms covered.

The good news was that the boys got to enjoy an extra coffee and pie at Copley, before racing the final 30 odd kms into the night location of Lyndhurst at about 40 km/h with a terrific tail wind.

The remoteness starts in earnest over the next couple of days, so Happy Easter and we will update the blog as and when we can.