Catch 🆙️ 🆗️

It was a ©️®️🅰️🅿️ sleep. I had put my ⛺ very poorly on a rock. Basically no matter what I did I was rolling into the side of the abode. I learnt my lesson. 🌝rise the next morning was just 🏆. You could 👀 pools of 💧 from the previous days ⛈🌧 it really was beautiful. No ⌚ to sit and watch. It was off. Not a hard stretch. Well it shouldn't have been. I get to the Cederberg roadg ➡️. I know this joe well. Nothing to speak of. It's fast and furious. I get to the last hill. Done this 1️⃣ a few times. New record today 🤷‍♂️. I get cracking. Good stuff. After about ⏸⏺ minutes I find myself 🚶🏻‍♂️ pushing the 🚲. Absolutely blown up. There is ⭕% of energy left. It is survival mode. If takes me close on double what it should have. I just had nothing to give.

At oasis! Food. 🥪🥪🍟🍟 ➕🍺🍺. I drink lots of 🧊💧 for the rest of the 🌞. Sleep was sufficient and ready for 🌞day.

I want to get going 🚵🏻‍♂️ early, so I am packed and settling the 🧾 sharpish. No plan 😳😲😅😅. I am going to take the long way round 🔙 2️⃣ op die berg. Short way 60kms. Long way 160kms 🦧😅🤣. To the same place? ✅☑✔🧐🙈. And off. Love the start. 30kms to uitkykpas. The descent is magnificently fast. Brakes smoking. Tyres screeching, some 🐈 on a 🏍 comes flying past ⚰⚱ the music is playing china 🎶🎵. 

I get to the bottom safely. No sign of street hawk. He must be home already!! Short flattish. Small very rideable climb. Another fast long descent. I am McDonald'sing this day. Another fun section into Citrusdal. 

😳😲😥😞 that town 👀 and 👃🏻 like a rubbish dump now. I am sorely disappointed. At the cafe for a supply or two. From here it is a 1000 meter climb to the top of the next pass. Not that steep. Well it has short sections, but what has 🎣 my 👁 is the ☁️🌧☁️🌧 moving in. I get cracking. Probably 30 minutes in I look to see what is what. The rain, not purple has arrived in the town. I push harder. Luckily it seems to be trying to wash the town clean 😳😅🤣. I keep an 👁 on it while I move. 🤞🏻🤞🏻.

Somehow I make the 🔝 without getting more than a few 💧💧💧 on me. Great success 🕺🏼. The descent on the other side is almost my last ride. I notice a 🚘 coming behind me. I move to the ➡️ so we should both be safe. As this happens another 🚘 coming up the ⛰ comes round the corner. Well. How on 🌍 this guy did not hit me is an absolute wonder. Entirely my fault. Understood. I thought I was doing the right thing. No 🚙🚘🚗🚐 for hours then one from both directions at the same ⌚. Que the music 🎼🎵🎶⚰⚱. No one stopped. I was sort of in the bush. It took a few minutes to compose myself.  😅🤣.

Back on it. I keep going. It is getting late. I look around for places to 🛌. Stopping here and there to see if it is safe. No luck. I end up at my spot on the other side of op die berg. The 🌝 has gone and I setup in the dark. Bedtime!!

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