10.51km / 42:03 / 132m / 17.0°C

Feeling surprisingly good after the past three day’s hard riding to get here, and a good night’s sleep. I’ve also formulated a plan on how to get back to Tumut for Monday night that doesn’t involve back through Wee Jasper and over the hills, or the unknown and possibly unsupplied route along the Brindabella road

Anyway, breakfast at a Lyneham cafe, then off to the parts of Canberra that I grew up in … and that I suspect I haven’t visited since last century. The bike paths are mostly as I remember, and many of them are in poor condition with lumps and bumps and tree roots, but there’s new signage and a consistent set of routes and arrows that seem to make them easy to follow; Sullivans Creek, up to Belconnen, across to Cook and around through the park to the big old boulder sitting by a tree. That’s the big old boulder that was removed from the ground where our house was so that the house could be built, and it and the park a site of many a childhood play adventures

Then around to the street and a sticky-beak look at my old house, still mostly unchanged, though now well hidden from view behind an overgrown bush garden

Broken clouds, 13°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 84%, Wind 3m/s from NNE - by Klimat