From sealed roads and bike paths to railway tracks, mud covered trails and bone rattling outback corrugations on the Oodnadatta Track, Narooma’s Craig Junor has been on them all over the past 18 days.
After a few hours sleep in a roadside tent, the 52-year-old is now battling Day 19 of the Ride to the Rock from Sydney to Uluru, south of Alice Springs.
The 52-year-old adrenaline junkie is getting close to the end of the almost 4000km course.
He is on track to finish the epic event in fourth place.
Craig said it’s been a grueling ride but with on several hundred k’s to go, he’s glad to be on the home straight.
“The first 700 k’s was more of an obstacle course than a bike ride,” he said.
“There was that many walking trails, four wheel drive tracks, river crossings, we were off the bike as much as on it. They try really hard to break you in that first 700k then from tehre we got 60mm of rain.
“You get into a rhythm and the pain sort of just numbs. The biggest pain I have is in my hands because of all the corrugations from the last thousand k’s. I even got pins and needles through all my fingers just from all of the jarring and gripping the bars.
“So it gets really hard to do zippers, buttons and things like that which sort of makes life so difficult.”
