Day ! Great Cycle Challenge hereafter known as GCC

Chess training and the start of the Great cycle challenge to raise $501.00 for childrens' cancer research. I must ride 1001 ks during October or at least 33ks every day.

I'm getting ready to make a trip via bike paths from Geneva Switzerland to Roma Italy.
To prepare I've been testing how to export GPX files as generated  by my STRAVA feed. Today's upload test is a short lake circuit of my home town Canberra.

Australian highlands tour

Preparing to ride some Australian mountains for a change

Friday March 24, 2017

Instead of always flying to France, Italy or Switzerland, time now to take in some more local highlands in my homeland Australia.
Going to catch a bus on Monday 27th March from Canberra to Albury on the border with Victoria and ride from there to Bright a small and very bike friendly town at the foothills of Mt Beauty. From there I hope to ride home via the tallest ranges in Australia. Two weeks maximum is my planned time period and hopefully the weather will be kind to me as the mountains attract clouds as we all know.
I'm reverting to my faithful touring bike of yore a TREK 520 as prepared for me by Ian Downing a superb bike specialist here in Canberra nearly 17 years ago.
I normally travel with the complete 6 Ortlieb pannier set as camping 2 days and hotelling every third is my want. However this time I'm reducing the clothing load and while still camping will make use of hotels a bit more.
I hope to be able to update everything on my phone and use a STRAVA pdf file like the one below to illustrate my exact route.