Sounds weird doesn't it? I mean, how hard can down time be? You get to sleep in, eat whatever you want, drink any day you want, spend precious time with the family, and generally aren't fatigued/sore/falling asleep on the train. Essentially you get to be a 'normal' person. But what happens when you don't want to come back to the bike?

The Sydney-Melbourne is a randonneuring event organised by Audax Australia. This four-day event runs every four years, starting on the foreshores of Sydney harbour and finishing at the Brunswick Velodrome in Melbourne. This is how my first 1200 went down.