Bicycle Tour: Day 9 - The Ladder Porterage
This was one of the days I most looked forward to. A day where I would get to do my first porterage up Die Leer (The Ladder). We were informed it would take about an hour today which took us 1hr1min. It’s not the time that’s the challenge other than being able to get up it and to the main way without blisters about an inch in diameter. This for me sadly was to be the end of the Freedom Trail as a cyclist with almost every part of my body giving me some form of problem. Jaco carried on to complete the day describing as “sadistic”. I think this was largely due to the fact that the narratives were written by people a lot fitter than us keeping in mind Jaco is pretty fit. His major problem now is the cold / flu that we thought to be getting better is just not letting go. We spent the night at the farm Rouxpos with our hosts Ronel and Gerhard.
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Ascent Today
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Traveled Today
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Ascent: 1507m
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Time Traveled: 7hrs41min
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Overall Trail
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Legend:
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| Distance Traveled: 63.7km |
