{"id":15972,"date":"2022-06-24T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/?p=15972"},"modified":"2022-06-24T02:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:14:15","slug":"eminence-to-pilot-knob-transamerica-day-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/eminence-to-pilot-knob-transamerica-day-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminence to Pilot Knob. TransAmerica day 53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

118.25 Km. 1,636m ascent. 6h28 ride time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New elevation gain record today \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 11,000m already ridden! So we ended up in Ironton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stef meets another Sheriff in Lesterville <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Anyway we were in good shape despite a poor night’s sleep because the AC was like a jet plane and blew cold air over the bed.
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Beautiful Missouri <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also had some serious climbs of 1-3km at 8-15% grade so ?I used the granny gear again today. That is only the second time I have had to get into bottom gear on tis trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ironton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dinner at the Bailey Jo\u2019s BBQ was very good and moderately priced <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bailey Jo\u2019s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

118.25 Km. 1,636m ascent. 6h28 ride time New elevation gain record today \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[14,54,72,20],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trans-american-bike-trail","tag-bike","tag-holiday","tag-motel","tag-tat","category-22","description-off"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220623-usa-transamtrail-6833.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16058,"url":"https:\/\/creamteam.be\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/buffalo-to-springfield\/","url_meta":{"origin":15972,"position":0},"title":"Buffalo to Springfield. 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