So three guys started our 400 rando event this morning. One is a local and practising for PBP later this year, one from down in Hobart and did his first rando before the end of last year (which is a wild climbing and sometimes wild weather 200) and the third from South Australia and mates of one of the longest riding guys in randonnees (try lots and lots of 1200km events as well as lots of other events).
Machka and I will fit in a short ride of our own early this afternoon and may cross their path to see how they are going, then set up a checkpoint at the ex-mining town, Beaconsfield, late this evening/early morning to provide them with some refreshments and water.
From 1 deg C and frosty windscreens at the start, it's now a nice sunny day. Tonight is also predicted to be frosty cold, but hopefully not form ice on the roads -- I've encountered that once myself and it results in an instant downfall that hurt a leg and hip and elbow....