STAGE 5

Sure it’s the longest stage yet, but you’ve got the hardest ones out of the way. If you haven’t been looking after nutrition, hydration and recovery you will not enjoy this day. If you are feeling rough, find the time for a proper warm up. It will help!
This is more of the traditional long outback stages that starts out heading west with long dry rolling dirt roads.
The last 50 kilometres will have you travelling predominately along smooth fast Sunwater Channel tracks that cut through beautiful farming lands and eventually pops out at the Skybury Coffee Plantation home for nights 5 & 6.