Headwinds may have been making the riding hard going for Lachlan Morton in recent days but he has still kept the 400km plus daily average rolling, pushing past the 10,000km mark in his around Australia record attempt on early Thursday afternoon and venturing onto the long exposed road of the Nullarbor Plain.
The average per day may have dropped a little since the EF Education-EasyPost rider charged through the halfway mark in the north of Western Australia – then it was 476km and now it is 466km – though Morton is still well ahead of target as day 22 of his lap of Australia unfolds. The plan was to try and finish the circumnavigation in 35 days, allowing a margin of around two days to the existing record, but if this pace continues he will ride the 14,201km back to Port Macquarie within an even faster 31 days.
Morton has been tackling headwinds more often than he’d like as he worked his way down Western Australia, joking at the start of his day 20 Instagram update that here comes the “next instalment of Lachlan rides into a headwind.” Though the increasingly lush terrain, “great bike paths” of Perth and peaceful back roads in the remote south of the state put him in high spirits regardless.
Heading up from Esperance on the south coast and past Norseman, however,…
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