2 km of Queenstown sealed roads
50 km of grade 2 (Okay) gravel
36 km of grade 3-4 (worse than average) gravel
6 km of farm grade 1 4X4 track (better than the public road preceeding)
10 km of grade 1 purpose built cycle trail
The above was the order in which we rode today. Once across the Lake to Walter Peak Station on a barge with 9 other cyclists on a brisk morning we set off on a good gravel road that by the Mavora Lakes had become a less than desirable road to ride - there was no one line you could follow or if there was it kept changing and this was in to a headwind that negated any of the average downhill profile of the ride. As can be seen from the above it got worse before it got better however the last purpose build section was great to ride,
One redeeming feature for the entirity of today's ride was that we knew on any other oaccasion it could have been a much greater challenge through 1) heat or 2) wind or 3) rain or 4) sleet and freezing. We had none of these,
Our scenery was yet again quite different - Very much clean tussock high country stations at quite high elevation (5 - 600 meters).
The end of this adventure is almost in sight now with only one more day to go.
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