Back in ‘The Alice’

I had been keen to do the Red Centre Stage Race for quite sometime now so boarding the plane and escaping to the arid but beautiful interior was exciting.

On the flight up we were able to see the effects of the wet year that we have had, Lake Eyre was pretty much at 100% capacity and it has taken 6 months for the water to make its way down from the north. It was an amazing sight from the air.

I had been in Alice 10 years ago, after finishing uni, I travelled up and worked here for 6 months, it felt nice to be returning to a memorable place where I had spent some time in the past.

We settled into our comfortable cabin at the caravan park and then set about going for a little roll into town to spin the legs, we did a couple of laps of the town and catching up with some of the regulars from the mtb scene and registered for the race.