| Elliott to Renner Springs | |||||
| Date: | 10-30-2014 | Time: | 03:30 h | Σ Time: | 310:40 h |
| Distance: | 93 km | Σ km: | 6397 km | Temp: | 20/40°C |
| Up: | 197 m | Σ Up: | 69931 m | Down: | 169 m |
| Calories: | 1566 kcal | Σ kcal: | 143211 kcal | ||
| Conditions: | The needed short cycling day. Everyone arrived at camp before the wind and heat turned on. Almost no shade at camp, thus everyone hanging out in bar or at the pool. | ||||
We deserved a shorter cycling day, after the 2 long ones. Cycling was fast and lunch at 70 km reached before 9am. Only 23km more to go after lunch with favorable wind, which blow me into camp at 9:55am. Renner Springs is just a gas station with a caravan park in the ‘desert’, no mobile phone signal, no internet. The camp ground has almost no shade for our tents. So we all escaped from the heat into the bar, restaurant or the pool and did not return until the sun was low enough and the outside air much cooler. The landscape turned into a lower bushes and much flatter. However it still looks very green, although there is no rain – evergreen bushes and perfect tar roads, thus no dust. Tomorrow is another 160 km ride to the next rest day location.
