RENO, Nev. — Jan Bennett learned a lot of lessons on her solo bicycle ride across the entire 2,220-mile (3,572-kilometre) Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.
She already had endured food poisoning, hail and near misses with tornado weather by the time she made it to a remote stretch of northern Nevada as part of her effort to map out a bike-packing route the historic trail.
But she told the Reno Gazette Journal recently it was a “little bit of a gut check” when she had to walk her bike up a canyon road where the water was scarce.
She remembered a piece of advice she had received about endurance riding: “If you have to cry, cry while you are moving.”
Eleven days later, she pedaled into Sacramento.
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Information from: Reno Gazette-Journal, http://www.rgj.com
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