Finished the Mallee Routes 400 in Vicko in something like 22 hours. Great ride, pretty flat, and excellent support (read, food) by the country people who organised it.

Finished the Classic 200 in Perth in around 12 hours (b-ugger of a headwind for 75% of the ride, and the Perth hills are surprisingly like ours -- tough).

Finished the Great Southern 1200 with 17 minutes to spare under the 90-hour time limit and survived the 100km/h southerly buster that came through on 26 November -- horizontal rain stinging like hell, and the guy I was riding with got blown right across the road and into a ditch!

Finished the Opperman One-Day Trial with a total mileage of 383km in 24 hours. Oh and yeah, and before all that, finished a 300km toughie in Tassie three days after dislocating and breaking my right shoulder.

All I have to do is finish the Giro Tasmania 1000 in January and I'm qualified for the international Randonneur 5000 medal.

And, I have kept a little in touch with you lot and your occasional run-ins with the Super Med. Hope saccy gets his bike fit worked out (and disposed of the disc, although I know from experience what it's like to overshift and wipe out nine spokes in one pedal stroke).

Also see there are a few new snouts in the trough. Welcome!