Lunch on the first of two rest days in lovely Dunedin. 

Yesterday’s ride of 124km was one of our hardest. Huge steep climbs to reach the coast road heading north eastward, so endlessly vertical that I almost reached my threshold of pedalling to keep the loaded bike moving. 

We’ve just weighed ourselves – myself at 72kg and Yasmin at 64kg – both losing around 10kg in 8 months of riding.