The Train Rolls On

9/17/17

Pueblo, CO > Eads, CO

Miles Ridden – 116.4

Mileage to date – 1,712

Perhaps this should have titled “Egads he is in Eads”?  Too rhymey I think.  In any case, John was back in action yesterday with Jaime and Heather after a well deserved rest day.  The terrain is flatter for the coming days so John and team decided to celebrate by riding 116 miles!  The made good time, but that is still a lot of riding in one day.

Speaking of trains, Eads (population 609) per wikipedia “was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis in 1874″.  That is pretty much all Wikipedia has to say on Eads.  Not a lot going on there as you can tell by the photos.

John spent the night camping in the town park.  He should be in Kansas tomorrow and apparently many of the towns in Kansas on the route also allow camping in the town park by cyclists.

John’s account of the day –

“The day started cool and overcast and the skies cleared as the ride unfolded.  All in all, a great weather day for a bike ride thru eastern Colorado.  While the terrain was flat we still managed to climb 1650 vertical feet over the course of the day.  We were all a bit surprised to discover 2 of the towns did not have convenience stores as the map suggested making all of our water supplies a bit tight for the end of  the ride into Eads.”

Yesterday was the first day in quite a while without the services of Ethan the friendly sag wagon driver.   John and team are back to carrying their own gear on the bikes.  Hopefully as they get further east the towns with services will be closer together.

Photos from yesterday –