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Day 43: Maybe my heart just aint in this 🤷🏾♂️
Denver, CO -> Black Hawk, CO Ishaq on the blog, and we’re gonna keep this one short and sweet. Yesterday we had a great learning festival un Denver, but the real highlight gotta be what happened after. Yes the alum dinner that you can read all about in another blog, but even more epic, Joseph
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day 42: adiós, amy! 🚗
Denver, CO to Denver, CO — 0 mi, 0 ft greetings from the mile high city (and home of the beloved broncos)! 🐎 this is sarah, back with my 2nd learning festival blog! while i like to give myself plenty of time to get ready in the morning on biking days, learning festival days have
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Day 41: The Mile High Club
Colorado Springs, CO -> Denver, CO, 66.4m, 2974ft Hi, hi! This might be the latest I’ve published a blog yet. Various other things were occupying my mind, things like leaking tires and the learning festival in Denver, and upcoming Hors Catégorie climbs, and going to the sauna… I’m sorry! Regardless, I still remember day 41,
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Day 40: Summertime in the Springs
Rest day in Colorado Springs, CO What’s up everyone, Charles here, back at it again with another b-logggg! I woke up for the second time today at 8:30am and checked my phone. I had a new Whatsapp notification. The message informed me that Cathie, Greta’s grandma and our host, tripped over a duffel in the
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Day 39: Why did the Chucken Cross the Road?
Fowler, CO to Colorado Springs, CO — 99.7 mi; 4,127 ft Why did the chicken cross the road? I don’t know. Why? To get to Colorado Springs, and the chicken is me. Perhaps the best joke in the history of MIT Spokes 2025, courtesy of Ramona. I woke up on the floor of the Trinity
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Day 38: screw it
Lamar, CO to Fowler, CO — 86.3 mi, 1,542 ft Today, I was hit with the big trifecta of chores: blogging, laundry, and driving tomorrow. Since a driver’s power unofficially begins at the end of the previous day’s bike ride, I had many tasks to accomplish tonight. Naturally, I had to slack on one of
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Day 37: Centennial Sunflowers
Lakin, KS -> Lamar, CO — 77.25 mi, 1,490 ft I awoke at 4:30 am to Ruth full on launching herself onto the bed where Charles and I slept. Ruth cracked her nose on Charles’ knee upon impact, causing sudden onset bleeding. I was pretty bewildered, but it turned out that Ruth couldn’t bear to
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Day 35: Last One Out of Dodge City
Ishaq here with a driver blog. Yesterday I went to visit my mom in Oklahoma City so I abandoned the spokes team and it was pretty 50/50 among the rest of the members is I would come back. After a nice day with my mom and afternoon in Wichita where I went to a nice
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day 34: fruits and roots 🍎
Newton, KS to Macksville, KS — 92.6 mi, 1,120 ft hello again! after i (sarah) took over tian’s blog about a week and a half ago, she took over mine, so it’s been a second since you’ve heard from me (especially since i’m posting this a few days late…sorry everyone. and you mom, especially). but
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