Day 1, Thursday 14th Feb. Richmond to Geelong to Winchelsea

Day 1

Thursday 14^th Feb

Richmond to Geelong to Winchelsea

100.48kms + 37.2kms

 

Ziggin and a’ Zaggin

Up at 7am and straight into peak hour city traffic. It took us a while to navigate our way out of Melbourne city and finally get on track towards Geelong. We were both a bit tired from the night before, but both pumped to be off and away on the tour.

Its not as easy as you think to find your way on a bicycle from Melbourne to Geelong. We probably didn’t put enough time into researching the easiest route, but we eventually got there. For a while we were zig zagging around in the Western Suburbs trying to get to Werribee for a feed. From Werribee we could jump onto the Geelong Fwy and pedal straight into town.

We rocked up in Geelong at about 5pm pretty tired from the night before. So we chilled out on the couches before a couple of beers and some dinner.

The gig was small but a good crowd, and great to hear Tom Milekovic play before my set. I was tired but really enjoyed playing, and some how my mate Simo convinced me into having a couple more beers before the night ended. You only live once ey?

It was a late pack up after the show and Harvey and I had to cycle to Winchelsea to get to bed. We dropped into Kardinia Café for a late night pasta and off we went into the night. I was a bit nervous about cycling at night, but we found that it was actually more relaxing, and we both felt a lot safer. Our bike lights are really bright, the roads are more quiet, and its easier to see traffic coming because they are well lit up. Some way into the trip Harv started to feel a bit of pain in his left leg, and was cycling with one leg for a little bit. But he got through it and we continued on.

You should have seen how awesome the stars were. The sky was well lit up and re assured us that this trip would be something we’ll never forget.

We got to Winchelsea around 3am and dived straight into bed. We decided to head to Winchelsea after the gig because otherwise we would have to cycle a 190km day to Warrnambool the next day. And at this stage we were unsure if we could handle that many kms in a day before a gig.