Hi Everybody,

Details and Analysis of my day 23 : http://connect.garmin.com/activity/20449139

Today was my last long day before arriving in Melbourne and it was a strange stage. I have planned to do 200 km to reach RockBank. I woke up at 4h40 and I left from Stawell at 5h33. The temperature was still cold, around 14 degrees. Obviously I had a small wind against me. After less than 1 hour, the drizzle has started for 4 hours. I bicycled for most of the time under the rain. Sometime I had to stop as the rain was too strong and became dangerous for my balance. I didn’t see much the sun unfortunately. I was on my saddle for 7h32 for 12 hours journey. We arrived exactly at 17h31 on our car watch.

I crossed a lot of different cities as Ararat, Beaufort, Ballarat, Ballan and Bacchus Marsh. All this cities seemed to be nice with some little cafe’s and always a lot of flowers to welcome the tourists.

I was feeling well whereas the weather condition was quite bad. After 1 hour I thought I will spend a bad day but I have managed to keep my tenacity and to go ahead to reach RockBank. It’s a very small city, just at 30 km from Melbourne. I wanted to stop here to arrive in Melbourne fresh and especially to try to realize what I have done.

Tomorrow will be my last day, my last alarm at 4h40 and my last ride in Australia. Obviously I will think about the causes that I defend, I will think about IRCAD, Children Cancer Foundation’s and WaterAid. Moreover I will remember all my nice days spent with my Dad, who helped me so much...my wife Prakriti who had some nice words by phone and all my family who had supported me since the beginning.

I will see you tomorrow on my blog obviously...I should reach Melbourne at 8h30 am(Melbourne time), 10 pm in France and 5h30 in Singapore. I plan to arrive in Federation Square.