104.58km. 1,027m ascent. 5h02 ride time Following a good night’s sleep in our motel and good food at supper we set off just after 07:00 and it was the first morning under 20C since a long, long time. A beautiful morning and again lots of hills, some pretty steep but none very long 👌 We…
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118.25 Km. 1,636m ascent. 6h28 ride time New elevation gain record today 👏🏻 Today went pear shaped! I had booked a motel, supposedly in Lesterville, but Google tricked me into a ‘near-by’ motel which was not far away by car but 33 km all the same and 500m ascent on top of our 83km and…
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68.30km. 692m ascent. 3h17 ride time I forgot to mention that we caught up with a TransAmerica Race rider yesterday on one of the longer hills 😱 To bring things into perspective: he started 05/06/2022 (we started 02/05/2022) and he had been riding all night that day, so it’s not because we are super fast,…
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As we are riding early morning to around midday, it gives us time to think about useless information to share on the blog I ride with a cadence of around 70/min which means on our TransAmerica trip I have turned my pedals 1,037,400 times up to now How fascinating is that? Leave a comment if…
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104.35km. 1,034m ascent. 4h49 ride time Following a not so great night’s sleep in the North Park at Marshfield due to the everlasting heat, we set off early to beat the heat agin. Wonderfully cool so early and a side to tail wind made today’s ride really enjoyable, even though it was up near 40C…
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83.58km. 1,053m ascent. 4h21 ride time We gained a short term Co-lodger last night. Hans-Udo arrived shortly after midnight and left again at the break of dawn. He is racing the TransAmerica bike race He looked really worn out and almost asleep on his feet. Maybe it would have been a challenge I would take…
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We have ridden 4,672km (69%). We have climbed 32,498m (58%). We have 2,371km and 26,405m of ascent left to do
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113.86km. 753m ascent. 5h49 ride time Again out at dawn to beat the heat and the temperatures were lower than yesterday. 23C when we left but it was already 10h00 before it hit 30C 😀 And we left flat Kansas behind after about 12km to enter Missouri 🤩 Missouri is known for its short very…
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Chanute to Pittsburg. 95.70km. 336m ascent. 4h19 ride time As the heatwave continues we are also continuing to start at dawn After a great evening and good rest at our Warmshowers host Rick Bushnell’s home with diner and breakfast included we were ready for another hot and humid day Flat again but with more trees…
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Eureka to Chanute. 103.99km. 438m ascent. 5h08 ride time With all the heatwave warnings we have been getting with 40C+ temperatures we decided to try to ride only before midday. We were up at 04:45 to leave in the twilight. We didn’t want to ride the on the highway in the dark as it was…
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