Today's ride may have been the most consistently unvarying that I've ever done: flat, corn and soybeans, and small towns, over and over and over again.Started out in fog - rather interesting visual effects. One note: when we first started, a couple guys used tail lights. By now, about 2/3 of us seem to be using them all the time - give the trucks plenty of time to see us and take aim.
The smiley face water tower may have been the highlight of the day.
The abandoned barn seems to be a pretty typical sight around here - more abandoned barns then barns still in use.
Talked to a local guy about the silos: The large storage tank holds 100,000 bushels of "shelled" corn - corn kernels removed from the cobs. They can be stored for up to 5 years and are used mostly for milled products: corn meal, hominy grits, etc. The local mill where the kernels are processed after being stored here, closed a few years ago - either because other mills were more modern, or because the local mill was a union shop and others are non-union.
8.3 hrs, 222 km/136 miles, 26.8 km/hr(16.2 mph), 89 heart rate, 134 watts, 3766 kiloJoules, 412 meter climbing (hard to believe that any climbing actually happened).
No post from Monday? I did one over at my spot. E-mailing you the HTML tags to link. I hope all is still going well and the insane monsoon from here isn't too intense back East.
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-Nate.