I did 58km of cycling today. Basically I'm trying to get enough endurance to contemplate some cycle touring and mapping is happening as a result.

Today's ride first went down Gundurimba Road which runs South from Lismore and roughly follows the Williams River. There were a few small roads which came off it which I couldn't map because they were unpaved and 700c x 25mm tires don't like that kind of thing.

In fact the rear tyre did get a puncture at some stage. A small stone (~1mm wide, 3mm long) got lodged in the tyre and put a small puncture in the tube. It patched up fine though.

I'm starting to regret not buying a Specialized Armadillo tyre ($65 each) instead on the flack jacket of the same size ($35). 2 more punctures in the next 1000km will have made the armadillo worth it.

The next road mapped was Richmond Hill Road. It starts at ~11m above sea level and ends at ~140m or so. It's fairly long though so there aren't any feral slopes, just a long gentle one. Along the length of this road are several short streets which branch off. I surveyed a few of them completely but there are a lot which just got photographed for the name, marked in then left with a FIXME=unfinished tag.

Tomorrow my mountain bike gets dropped off at a bike shop for a new bottom bracket and maybe new cranks. It looks like somehow the bottom bracket axle has become twisted and it needs a new one and possibly new cranks, depending on exactly what is twisted. Getting it fixed will allow me to go on long rides up into the Nightcap National Park.

Anyway, should just do a short ride tomorrow, maybe 15-20km of flat road mapping.