Day 1 started early with the pickup of all the participants at 5:00 at various locations. We went on to Blockhouse Wimpy for breakfast in pouring rain leaving Johannesburg. All the different weather reports indicated between 90 and 99% chances for rain in the Sasolburg and Reitz areas.
When we got to Blockhouse the rain had stopped and the sun showed it's face through the clouds. We finished breakfast and went on to the starting point outside Sasolburg. We got under way just after 8:00, and was pleasently surprised with the cloudless skies and relatively strong tail-wind.
We stopped at Heillbron for a quick snack after about 60km. We carried on and stopped for lunch just outside Petrus Steyn. We left Petrus Steyn and continued with a very pleasant tail-wind.
We finally arrived at our destination in Reitz covering 152km in 5 hours and 25 minutes of being on our bikes at an average of just under 29km/h.
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