Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Kenworthy Factor and the Man-Made Vortex


We left Des Moines and headed towards Iowa City with the help of Adam Kenworthy. You may remember Adam from such blogs as "Special Thanks." Adam motor-paced us all of the way to my alma mater and the home of the undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes.

Motor-pacing is a special form of cheating where you follow within inches of a rapidly moving vehicle. The massive draft allows cyclists to mainatin high speeds. We made it the 107 miles to Iowa City averaging well into the mid 20's, which included speed bursts over 40 mph. We made the journey in a little over four hours.

Iowa City is a great town with great people. The weather was terrible with rain all day. Because we we were with such great people and still feeling some negative post Gutter Ball effets, we settled on yet another off day. The off day ended with a few beers and Dave dancing with the local belly dancer. Unfortunately, photographing Fajita was prohibited.

1 comment:

  1. Congrats you guys...sounds like you are making great headway...and of I am sure you enoyed a day in IC...a fabulous town! We are all rooting for you!

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