Day 3 Kampong Speu – Kampong Chhnang
So it’s day three…and I’m tired. Not just tired from all this physical exertion from the past two days, but it seems my lack of sleep and jet lag has finally caught up with me. My head and body are tired, my whole being is just exhausted and I’m yawning as I get on my bike – not a good start to the morning! This morning we were doing our usual greetings to all the locals as we passed them and were getting lots of excited kids waving wildly back at us and their parents greeting us too and laughing. This greeting between us and the locals has found its commonplace in the trip and...
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On the beginning of day two, there was a general feeling of exhaustion and aching muscles throughout the team, but the cycle must continue! We began our first 20km of the cycle travelling down one road, passing all the local children cycling on their way to school. Continuing down this road, we were then cycling with rice fields for miles either side of us and the mountains in the horizon. A truly spectacular site, distracting me from my aching limbs. We also were fortunate in today’s cycle as we experienced some light rain, cooling us down on a particularly hard road. Although I began...
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Today was the first day of the cycle, which went surprisingly well until I finally got off my bike, when my body felt the distance of 91 km we’d cycled. We left from the seaside town of Kep at 6.30am and cycled along the seafront as the sun rose. As we made our first stop in a local village it became apparent that we were a rare sight for the locals – tourists in tight fitting lycra. The majority of the day was spent cycling on a dirt track which went through small villages, in which we were met by the villagers waving and greeting us. During moments of fatigue this spurred me on as the...
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