For those of you that don’t know, my dad and I have decided to go on the anual Biking Across Kansas tour. It’s an eight day, 539 mile trip across the entire state of Kansas done entirely by bicycle. This year, they decided to make the trip diagonal, which means it will be just about as long as it possibly can be. The idea is that the winds will be blowing in the right direction to make things easier, but these last few days the winds haven’t been blowing in that direction, so I guess we’ll see what happens.

Neither my dad nor I are really “bikers,” so we have a lot of training to do before we’ll be ready for the trip. We’ve been biking almost every day since I’ve been back from LeTourneau, and have seen definite improvements. The longest I’ve gone so far was a 22.5 mile trip last Saturday, which is pretty good, but on the trip every day will be 60 to 85 miles! June 4 is getting closer every day, hopefully we’ll be ready by then.

The two bikes we’ll be using on the trip are a green Schwinn and a silver Linear Recumbant. If you haven’t ridden a recumbant bike before, they’re pretty neat. You sit down and the pedals are in front of you instead of under you. My dad’s even has the handlebars for stearing underneath the seat. The plan is to trade off bikes every 10 miles or so, when the BAK people have a “SAG” stop set up.

I plan to keep a journal during the trip, which I will post here when I get back (assuming I survive the trip). If I can snag a digital camera from somewhere I might take it along and put some pictures up in my photo gallery too.