DHS Great Vic Bike Ride team with Mayrung Public School students.
With less than a month until the Great Vic Bike Ride, preparations are well under way for the Deniliquin High School team.
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Training has been amping up, and included an 84km round trip across the district last Wednesday.
The nine students and three support riders - Gen Dunmore, Sue Laing and Sue Pitts - made the annual practice ride from Deni to Mayrung Public School.
It was a sunny day, but riders faced headwinds a challenging precursor for conditions expected during the Great Vic.
The visit is a highlight for the interested Mayrung primary school students who greeted the cyclists with a sausage sizzle.
Mrs Laing said the high school students did themselves and the support crew proud with the way they conducted themselves throughout the day.
She also thanked Mayrung for hosting the school’s representatives.
The students have been training since August, and are yet to complete a 65km practice ride.
The Great Vic Bike Ride is from November 23 to 27 this year with the Deniliquin High School team set to ride from Bendigo to Creswick via Castlemaine and Trentham.
The team is set to ride over 300km in total, with over 3000m of elevation averaging around 70km per day.
They will camp each day travelling through the Victorian Goldfields region.
In addition to Dunmore, Laing and Pitts, Grant McKern will also join as an adult/supervising rider this year.
Grant is the grandfather of ride participant Archie McKern, from Year 7.
DHS Great Vic Bike Riders Brydey Maher and Haydn Sampson with the other DHS bikers set to leave Mayrung Public school.
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