FFC Ride 4 KidsCan

Final day;

Well what a way to wrap up the tour, riding from Wanaka to Queenstown

The Cardrona valley treated us well, and the weather was still and a little crisp so perfect for the bike. It took us 25ks to reach the Cadrona pub (no time for beer...), and then we had to single file and make our way to the summit of the Crown Range. Seemed straight forward. It was horrendous! The last 2 ks ramped up and I was in my lowest gear for a long time.

The downhill was more fun, but a lot of traffic on the Crown Road. We reached speeds of up to 80kms and my brakes were literally smoking.

We slipped into Arrowtown for refueling then back on the bikes and off to Coronet Peak, which took about 1 hour to summit and it was only fitting the hardest part would be the end, and it was a little wet but nothing unmanageable, to me it was a perfect finish.

We had a celebration at the top before turning our sights on the hotel. Time to get off the mountain, so a gentle spin to Queenstown, rest up, pick up some thank you pressies then off to the skyline for a celebration dinner.

At the dinner there was plenty of stories about the week, but the best thing was looking around the room and seeing what all these wonderful people had achieved as a collective. We reached $150,000! This will go directly into helping fund kids in need. It was also announced that we would get to put 4 schools on the programme, so that will be over 800 kids, they are going to get food everyday, they will receive shoes, rain coats, and toothbrushes etc. and as I said early on it doesn't seem like a lot but it is,

What you have all done via sponsoring me means that we get these kids to the start line, so that means they are in the game each morning. It give them opportunity.

Thank you all so so much for your support!!!

Cheers

Michael