The short version ....
Saturday morning we started a 600K randonnee ... with some misgivings.
I had been very sick twice since the 400K randonnee we did in mid-August and we haven't been able to train the way wanted. In fact, we missed a 600K in mid-September because I was too sick to go.
Plus this area has been flooded and the Murray river was set to peak on Saturday ... so the route was changed at the last minute.
Nevertheless ... we began. After dealing with headwinds, a wrong turn, a flat tire, faulty shifters, and my lack of fitness ... we rolled back into the start at the end of the first loop having cycled 390 km in about 23.5 hours.
And there, we called it a day.
I gave it everything I had ... there was nothing left.
Still ... we covered 390 km faster than we did on our 400 km in mid-August.