afternoon after they rode into town from Nyngan.
“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” local Claudine Griffiths, a participant on this year’s Tour de OROC charity ride said after she arrived in Cobar yesterday.
Claudine was among the second peloton of Tour de OROC riders who arrived in town yesterday on Day 3 of their 800km ride across the western region to raise funds for the Macquarie Home Stay (MHS) facility in Dubbo.
The cyclists set off from Nyngan yesterday morning to ride the 130km leg to Cobar and for the first couple of hours the weather was okay.
However it soon got very windy and dusty and Claudine said she found it very tough going.
It was the encouragement from the rest of the group, in particular the support from Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, Megan Reakes and host/commentator of SBS’s Tour de France, Mike Tomalaris, who are both on this year’s ride, that helped her to make it to her home town.
Claudine was very much looking forward to sleeping in her own bed “and soaking in a bath”. She’s very sore, but not injured and is confident of completing the whole ride, which finishes in Coonamble on Saturday.
Funding from this year’s ride will go towards Dubbo’s Macquarie Home Stay’s next stage of construction which consists of consists of five family units and a children’s playground.
The Macquarie Home Stay provides accommodation for rural and remote families needing to travel to Dubbo for medical treatment.
