day 29 Sydney to Diagonal Fogle Rec Area 87 Miles Day 30 Diagonal to Chariton North West Park

The talk of the camp early this morning was about the large branch that fell and Billie D's tent and broke the poles. We laughed and found humor in it but it really could have been worse in that the branch landed on Billie in the middle of the night.  What is interesting is that this happened on a very calm night rather than one where we had heavy winds.  Billie is now buying his 4th new tent for the tour. 


I left camp this morning at 7 Am.  It was a beautiful quiet sunny morning with little wind.  We rode down roads that appeared undulating ribbon weaving through fields of corn, hay and soybeans. It was hill after hill after hill. We climbed over 3700 feet on rolling hills for 85 miles. It was a long day and many riders were very weary at the end of the day.  Warm weather, lots of climbing wears out the body.  For supper, we had the best supper yet according to Brandon Haan with spaghetti, delicious sweet corn, salad, raw veggies, pie and ice cream. According to locals, Al bought the best sweet corn in all of Iowa from a local farmer in Shanondoah a town we biked through

Peloton meeting in Sydney- Waubonsie Park

Mark Van Otteren being dress by Betty Bandstra for his climb up Pikes peak with helmet, rain coat, rain pants.  Part of our skit night.

rolling terrain in Iowa with fields of corn, soybean and hay.

Matt Hoogsteen showing us what he carries in his panniers.  Part of skit night. 

At night we had people from Diagonal United Church sell pie and ice cream as a fund raiser for their new church. this morning they served a hot breakfast of eggs, French toast, biscuits and gravy.  The breakfast did not sit well for me but many others enjoyed the hot breakfast.

This morning Barb and I set out at 645 in 63 degree temps. We had another day of rolling hills with same scenery.  I arrived in camp at 1230 but stopped to enjoy a cold chocolate milk with Jane before we arrived in camp.  We are camp in a wide open field with no shade about a mile from the downtown of Chariton.  Shuttles are being provided to Pizza Hut, where there is Wi Fi. ( I am blogging from here) , to the library and showers at the armory.  I had taken a quick shower with my clothes on under our make shift out door shower. 

Looking forward to our short day tomorrow when we ride into Pella.

Time to sign off as we need to return to camp as Jane Brouwer, George VanderKuur, and I are on sweep team that is on duty tonight which means we have to help serve supper tonight, clean up after supper and then again help serve breakfast in the morning and help clean up the food and camp before we head out for our bike ride.  

 

 

Stats for today.

• Distance75.24 mi
• Duration5h:29m:56s
• Avg. Speed13.7 mph
• Max. Speed31.0 mph
• Calories3896 kcal
• Min. Altitude956 ft
• Max. Altitude1241 ft
• Total Ascent1063 ft
• Total Descent1234 ft