Well the target was 17 hours and a place called Boorabbin, however with a good wind at his back and feeling strong Damian powered on averaging almost 40kms/hr at times and even maintaining 30 - 32 kms/hr up hills. He left his support riders struggling to keep up at times. He eventually pulled in to COOLGARDIE at 2am West Australian time - after riding almost 18 1/2 hours, with only about a 5 - 10 minute break for lunch. This means that almost 560 kms have been completed in the first day.
The heat from the road has been fairly intense and the support crew have not had an easy time either - Lynnette one of the team suffered a bad fall and gashed her arm quite badly. This needed treatment with one of the support vehicles having to drive ahead almost 2 hours to receive this. We sincerely hope that this will heal quickly and no complications will set-in.
Damian was feeling quite tired and slept until 7am Sunday morning when he planned to start off again - the next target, for the end of day 2 is somewhere between Balladonia Roadhouse and Caiguna.
Updates over the next day or two may be a little 'thin' as communications are poor through the area at the moment and the Nullarbor.
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