Hi Everybody,

Details and Analysis of my day 9 : http://connect.garmin.com/activity/19762572

I have just arrived to Alice Springs. He is almost noon (12h) after fighting during 5h38 min against the wind. When I left this morning at 5h16, the first half an hour was great as the road was nice and no wind at all. After this, at around 6 am it became like a nightmare for all the day. I had bicycled against a strong wind and the road became very bad in term of quality. I was very slow as well because there were some elevations. At the final I have done 130 km in 5h38 min for 6h40 in total.

I took some break almost each 1 hour as the road was bad and I was doing some huge effort. Around 50 km before reaching Alice Spring I was stopped suddenly seeing this poor kangaroo on the side of the road. His leg was completely broken and he couldn’t move. My dad gave him some water as the temperature was already hot even if there were some winds. We could not do anything else unfortunately except to give some water. It was so cute. It’s was a sad moment of this day but as I was suffering as well I decided to finish nicely this stage for him.

Today the traffic was quite calm again even close to Alice Springs. Concerning Alice Spring, it is a new nice city. You can find anything you want. Around 26 000 people live here. Several things to do and to visit as the Kings Canyon, some natural parks as West MacDonnell national Park or Finke Gorge National Park and not far from here, Ayers Rock.

Tomorrow I will have a long day as I should ride for 200 km to rest Erldunda. It’s on Stuart Highway but also on the way to go to Uluru to see Ayers Rock, the big red rock in the middle of no where

See you tomorrow