Headwinds may have been making the riding hard going for Lachlan Morton in recent days in his around Australia record attempt, but he pushed past the 10,000km mark on early Thursday afternoon and has now ventured onto the long exposed roads of the Nullarbor Plain.
Morton's average of over 400 kilometres per day may have dropped a little since the EF Education-EasyPost rider charged through the halfway mark in the north of Western Australia – back then it was 476km and now it is 466km. But as day 22 of his lap of Australia unfolded, Morton was still well ahead of target.
The plan was to try and finish the circumnavigation in 35 days, allowing a margin of around two days to the existing record. But if this pace continues he will ride the 14,201km back to Port Macquarie within an even faster 31 days.
