Comments | lshiva: Halfway through Kansas

lshiva

Halfway through Kansas

Sep 22, 2005 14:25

I'm in Hutchinson, Kansas today. It's been eventful since last I wrote. My rear tire started having problems, and I broke 2 spokes within an hour. I fixed the first one with a temporary doo-hicky, but after the second one snapped I knew I was going to have problems. The folks in Kansas are so nice that I hardly had a problem at all, despite ( Read more... )

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reveritas September 22 2005, 20:21:33 UTC

like the updates! :) can you afford to lose 15 points in 10 days? better eat some of that cornfed kansas food.

lshiva September 22 2005, 22:55:19 UTC

I can probably afford to lose a bunch more than that. A couple of nights ago I cleaned out an all you can eat chinese buffet. I've been thinking of trying to find an Olive Garden for their all you can eat pasta deal they've been advertising. From all I've read it's impossible to not lose weight while doing bicycle touring.

Based on a quick calculation on some calorie counter web site I'm burning around 4000 calories a day just on the biking. That's something like 8 Big Macs a day.

Of course it's dinnertime right now, and my stomach is agreeing with you. :)