Weather starting to turn a bit scruffy

 5 days out now, so you can be a bit more confident in the weather forecasts.

And the news on that front isn't great. I was hoping for mid to high 20s, but it's looking more like low to mid 30s.

Here's the forecast for Bright, which is where the ride hubs out of.

Now the one piece of good news is, I'll spend a lot of the day at elevation, which is forecast to be cooler:

Mt Hotham forecast

I'm a little bit disconcerted about the wind forecast for Mt Hotham, but it is what it is.