June 20, 2007 Background (1)

Mike and I (Paul) decided to ride the entire Katy Trail in Missouri on our bikes. The trail is one of the Rails to Trails projects with a total length of 225 miles. We took the agressive approach and decided to ride the whole thing in two days. In order to maximize our daylight hours June 21st, and 22nd seemed like the logical choice. We had almost 15 hours of daylight each day and as you will see we needed them all. The trail surface is crushed limestone, so there is much more rolling resistance than a paved road. This added resistance means that there is virturally no coasting and you must continue to pedal all of the time. It was sort of like a 225 mile spinning class.