By TANIA PHILLIPS
TWO men, two bikes, 900 kilometres and a whole group of Rotary clubs.
Tweed businessman Tony Worrad of NR Signs is back on the Tweed (his friend Ray Chatt is still riding south for fun) this week after completing his six-day trek from Tweed Heads to Singleton to raise money for the Rotary Oceania’s Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) program.
“It was all down hill,” he joked.
“It as a good experience but it was pretty tough going.”
While the first day to Ballina was pretty smooth, Tony said headwinds made it tough for most of the rest of the trip.
“We had 40-knot headwinds – it took nine hours from Ballina to Grafton,” he said.
“But the hardest part was the last day from Maitland to Singleton – I even had to peddle going down hill. At one stage we were going nine kilometres an hour – I could have got off my bike and run faster.”
However he said having two of the young girls who have been helped by ROMAC there to see them off on the Sunday morning at Tweed was great inspiration.
“Whenever it got tough I thought of them,” he admitted.
And while they are yet to find out how much money has been raised according to Tony it was all worthwhile.
“We had people seeing the pictures of the kids as they drove along and stopping to give us money,” he said.
“And all the Rotary clubs were amazing.”
He said part of the trip was to promote Rotary.
“They don’t promote themselves enough, people don’t know just what they do.”
