Day 24. The Rest day was a rainy day, so much rest was accomplished. One fellow rider offered to have Bob and I join him and his wife, and one other rider for dinner. Peter's wife was visiting and had a rental car. We ate at the Farm House Restaurant, which was a favorite of President Eisenhower's, who is now buried, along with his wife and child in the Eisenhower Meditation Hall at the Eisenhower Library and Museum, in Abilene, Ks. We did have to call the restaurant more than once because we drove right by it because their sign was flat on the ground. OOPs.
Day 25. Abilene to Topeka, KS. So much for the Rest day. The next day was 108 miles with head winds for most of the day. In my opinion, if this had been earlier in the tour, many riders would not likely have made it all the way in this day. It was a beautiful day in terms of scenery, but the winds were brutel. I made it through the desert without serious sunburn, but this day gave me and a few other riders, a wind burn. You can see from above that road was also seriously rolling. The road above reminded me of the ribbon christmas candy. And, these rollers were the most benine portion of the ride this day. We also saw some elk, note second picture above. We did have a nice late ride treat. We did stop at a place for pie. Norma, the owner, has won a National contest for best pie. One of the riders actually had 3 pieces, plus ice cream, and a drink. There was only about 15 miles to go after the 90 plus up to that point. I admit that I had a piece of pie, and a bowl of ice cream. Since the pie was lemon merange, I did have the pie and ice cream separately. We just ordered, and they delivered it. Then, before you leave, you just go up to the cashier and state what you had, they ring it up, and you pay. Can you imagine that happening is any Big city?
We did manage to average 13.5 mph for the 108. That included some 6,624 ft of climbing per another's Garmin. I managed to incorrectly re-charge my Garmin, again, and I had to shut it down at the SAG at the 62 mile mark. At that piont, my Garmin was showing just short of 4,000 ft of climbing. We all know these figures are not exact, but they show give a good indication of the efforts being put out for most days. And, today took us to the half way point of the tour, in terms of miles covered.
Day 26. It was an overall good day. It took me a few miles to get my body in gear today, given a bit of fatigue spill-over from yesterday. We did move onto another state: Missouri. One of those, gett'r done days.
Topeka, Ks. to St. Joseph, Mo.
Miles: 85.8
Time: 6:04
Average: 14.1 mph
Max: 28.6 mph
Total Ascent: 3,035 ft
Est Calories: 5,537
See ya.............................
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