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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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Day 33: Decyphering Newton
Newton, KS -> Newton, KS 0 mi, 0 ft (except for Ishaq, but he had his own agenda) After cycling for hours through the plains, fields and general flatness and emptiness the last couple of days, I was excited to exist in civilization for a day. We had a learning festival planned in the Newton
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Day 32: Life is a Highway 🎶
Emporia, KS -> Newton, KS – 76.3 miles, 1,602 ft My day began like most of my other days on Spokes — smashing the snooze button on my phone alarm and cursing previous-night Charles. This time, the offense was a 7-player Smash Bros session in the church basement the night before. I can probably count
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Day 31: Second Fourth of July
Overbrook, KS -> Emporia, KS – 61.9 miles 1,602 ft “Herding cats” is how our Overbrook host Scott described the MIT Spokes group getting ready in the morning. We rushed to pack our car because we had a special engagement this morning, visiting Scott’s retirement community. Joseph’s glove also went missing in the laundry so
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