Nicola Rutzou
Lachlan Morton has completed his lap of Australia in record time, crossing the finish line in his home town of Port Macquarie, NSW on Saturday afternoon.
It’s been great fun following his progress, joining many ‘dot’ watchers around the globe.
He took an impressive 30 days, 9 hours, and 59 minutes to complete the 14,200 km lap of Australia and smashed the Around Australia Record by nearly a week. To achieve this, he averaged over 450 km per day! On most days he started riding about midnight and stopped around 5 or 6 pm.
From his media statement:
“Mentally, it’s a lot of time to be focused,” Lachlan said. “And every morning you wake up and your body is kind of like destroyed and you push through, it just chips away at you so definitely the last four or five days were a pretty big challenge mentally. You’re just trying to keep showing up and doing it every day. It got pretty tough. I was definitely in a state of fatigue that I hadn’t really reached before so I had to lean on the crew and rally to get home. Just dedicating such a massive amount of time to pushing yourself every day. That is the real challenge I think of the Around Australia Record. I’ve never been so relieved to finish something as I was today.”
As well as breaking records, Morton raised money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, an organisation focused on providing books and learning resources to Indigenous children living in remote communities across Australia. At the time of writing, he’d raised just over $137,000 but it’s not too late to donate if you’re interested.
Hi Lachlan I’m absolutely blown away with your achievement, I was doing the same trip at same time on my red ducati, I left from Canberra going clockwise and must of gone past u somewhere , I did the trip in 6 weeks and doing huge rides in days up the wa side to Darwin.How much food and how were you drinking to keep up your energy . There was some really cold days down bottom of Wa and mega hot days up top . The Baxter hwy a very boring piece of road . Did u get challenged by that water buffalo up near katherine?