SEVEN hours, 203km and a goat made for a fun day of riding for Ben Jones.
The ECU Joondalup corporate communications officer joined his fghtclb.cc amateur cycling team members on an adventure to create a “route of epic proportions” on Sunday.
Responding to questions on website Reddit, Jones said they chose a goat because they are “badass” and “an easy animal to draw in profile”.
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READ NOW“Also, there’s so many awesome goat puns and my partner is about to give birth to our first child and it was something fun to do before I have a ‘kid’,” he joked.
Jones told readers he planned the route using the fitness app Strava.
“You drop a bunch of waypoints along roads and make it all join up into a picture,” he said.
“I’m not much of an artist so I had a picture of a goat on a second screen to help me.
“Once it’s planned, you export it to a GPS device.”
He said the cyclists averaged just under 30km/h, stopping for “food, nature breaks and a couple of flat tyres”.
The team is now looking for suggestions for their next challenge.