This is the corner referred to in the narrative. You go from 5% to 10% in a matter of metres. The next 7K are are the steepest hovering between 8% to 12%.

Between the 12K to 20K it hovers around 7%+ which would ordinarily be easy but by this stage your legs are really tired.

The last 2K hover around 12%, but interestingly it did not feel that bad perhaps because you could see the destination and possibly also because I had stopped at the Simpson memorial that the aches in my back had eased.

My back hurt right through. As luck would have it I tweaked it this morning before we left.

My legs were fine (relatively speaking).