Living Strong for 24 Hours: Day 2 - Discovering the challenge

Time to unload the bikes and set up

Today turned out to be far busier than first thought, The organisers had set the registration and racing briefing at different venues to the race grounds which consumed much of the day finding ourselves around Canberra in the traffic and all the road works going on at this time. First thing we registered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (Pictured parked out front).

Crowne Plaza Hotel (Pictured parked out front)

Bikes and gear cosy in the pit crew tent

Tony ready to test the track wearing the honour Jersey.

Then off to Mt Stanglo to the track to set up the tent and test the track. Tony had only enough time to do a quick lap of the course. It is a challenging technical course and already riders were checking in with injuries just testing the track out today. Ideally Tony would have liked to have had a day to get familiar with this challenging track but there wasn't time. The challenge will be to finish the 24hours and finish it without injury or major damage to the bikes. Tony had 3 bikes but will be using his single speed for the race, using the others as backup.

Apart from the weather conditions during the race they also have to be aware of the animal life in this area. There have been a few sightings of snakes today so we are hoping one cross Tony’s path!

Meninga Stadium

After a somewhat stressful dash to the Meninga Stadium for the briefing we returned to our tent to finish preparations and check a few locations on the field. Tired from the day running around we returned to the Hotel after grabbing supplies for the next day and a pizza for a high carb dinner before the race tomorrow. Tony retired early and I am updating the blog and uploading the photos before I retire also. We have to be at the track by 8am to allow for queues, carting the days supplies to the tent, final prep and settling before the race starts at approximately 11am.

Racing grounds Mt Stranglo

Danien Richmond & Tony Cavill

Photos from Day 1

Sorry about the delay with photos yesterday. I had some program issues turning my photos into web friendly images. Here are a few from Tony's trip up.