Day 4/8 cycling

Hit a personal record in one day, 55.27km. Again I'd be happy to shoot for 60km deffo, but those in charge felt as it was a longish drive to hotel we should knock it on head and finish. Btw, the photos of just me are mainly for Etta!
About 8-10 of the 25 didn't complete the last 10km as sun was out again and they'd rather overheated I think. Quite a nice hotel tonight, in Surin, and tomorrow, as tmw is a non cycling day when we get bussed to visit a few projects and the locals which use the microfinance from us. The video below at the Cambodia - Thai border describes the cock up which held us up and used valuable cooler riding time. In addition before we got to the border, we were driven to what they said was Pol Pot's grave , altho who really wants to visit the grave of a genocidal maniac, and it was a double waste of time as those who got out of the bus found out the grave was a 2km walk away, so never saw it anyway... all wasting cooler riding time...! Unfortunately, when we had the lunch stop the food had been put out sometime before we got there and Tony from the charity, and Dr Lisa insisted on getting new food as it had flies around it. So the table you see has all food which will either go to waste or feed local people I guess. Generally there has been too much food at lunch stops, and most people want an energy boost but not a big meal before cycling again! Several people had dodgy tummies after last night's meal, which looked like very authentic Khmer cuisine indeed!Leggi altro