The following is taken from Strava posts.

Great two days on the bike from Canberra to Wagga via Tumut, for Gears & Beers bike festival 130km tomorrow. Hot though. Day one I rode with Nat and Heather. Had quite a lot of elevation and I didn’t drink enough fluids and felt sick as soon as we checked into the motel. Had a one hour rest and felt much better and managed to eat dinner then breakfast in the morning. Day two we parted ways and I rode onto Wagga which didn’t have much elevation. Rode with Roz from the Vikings crew all the way from Adelong to Wagga. New bike has performed well so far, just a couple of creeks coming from the saddle, easy to fix though. Now eating, drinking (Powerade), resting up and preparing my bike for tomorrows ride.

Dusty, windy and hot. Removed the water bottle underneath the downtube and removed some non-essential items. Lowered the tyre pressure to 45psi. Swapped out the 34t chainring for a Wolftooth 42t. Was nice not to have the extra weight from the last couple of days.