Day 5 Evening Txt Update

Yeah I know, nobody was txting cause they were riding their bikes :-)

I think the "I'm enjoying it" outnumber the "this is hell on wheels" finally.


SMS with Nic Kelly
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:17
Ok was saying batteries flat so wil replace now. In alex.

SMS with Craig Phillips
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:28
Kurow pub dinner, yum, then maybe a barn to kip in up the haka tonight? With mark & geoff ...olly went on a mission to finish tonight.

SMS with Tristan Rawlence
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:40
So we are in middlemarch. Slight detour at the end. There is no Kent st in Sutton. Might be a cause for confusion.

SMS with Greg Thurlow
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:48
Alex.shorts and tshirt on old man range.fantastic scenary and downhill .if anyone finds a jandal on the downhill....

SMS with Geoff Tilbrook
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:59
Found on old man range. Sun cream + jandal. May belong to sunburned red-haired man with a limp.
In Alex. Great day for a grovel over the range.

SMS with jasper van der lingen
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:06
Middlemarch - long day in the saddle!

SMS with Phil Chapman
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:26
Celebrated halfway yest with a beer and a shower and a proper bed and a beer and some food and beer. Woop Woop!

SMS with Geof Blance
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:34 
Kurow for tea... The Ollie train went along alone. . 1 More stage to go...

SMS with Mark Rayward
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:41 
Kurow. Hungry as. Ollie on a mission to finish tonight. Us 3 stop another night

SMS with Graeme Noble
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:51 
Time for a beer in alex :-) good day on the old man range. Fun down needed to be after the up. Snow almost gone.

SMS with Shelley Friedrich
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:54 
Middlemarch!  Nice. Amazing country 2 see. Sleep n bed 2night. :-)

SMS with Ken Scott
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:51:55 
In Middlemarch.A brutal day

SMS with Chaplow Paul
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:17 
Just had a feed of nachos. Will head out of middlemarch shortly to get to Ranfurly tonight. Nearly lost the momentum but looks like we're moving.

SMS with James Hardisty
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:18 
In alex hot and tired

SMS with Neil Charters
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:21 
Reached alex, had an awesome ride along old man range, up through cloud into sun and snow. Had some food, replaced sliced tyre and now off for a swim

SMS with gordon macdonald
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:26 
Grt to meet up with the ida valley water race again. Had an exlnt tail wind from. Middlemarch. Ruffing at ancient  briton in naseby

SMS with Claude Dabaliz
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:55:31
In at Kurow on my short course/bail out route.  My crank retaining bolt has sheared in half - will make for an interesting ride to Tekapo.