{"id":893,"date":"2021-08-24T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/?page_id=893"},"modified":"2021-08-24T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T01:51:14","slug":"day-14-winnett-to-jordan-montana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/day-by-day-trip-log\/day-14-winnett-to-jordan-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 14: Winnett to Jordan, Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Food and water are key to a successful day, especially in Eastern Montana because there are so few places to eat or drink.\u00a0 Between Winnett, Montana, where I spent last night and Jordan, Montana where I am sleeping tonight, there are 78 miles of punishing hills.\u00a0 The bike computer tells me I climbed 4,400 feet on today\u2019s ride.<\/p>\n

Between these two towns is one rest area with bathrooms and one small store.\u00a0 Almost everything else is grass lands or sage brush.<\/p>\n

Because there are so few places to stop it is key to get the food and water right.\u00a0 I had breakfast in Winnette at the Kozy Korner Cafe.\u00a0 It was good food and helped me through the early miles.<\/p>\n

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I drank a lot of Gatorade getting to the rest stop, which was about 26 miles outside of Winnette.\u00a0 At the rest stop I ate a couple of bananas, a couple of pieces of bread and a Cliff bar.<\/p>\n

This got me another 20 miles down the road to Sand Springs, where they made milk shakes in the store.\u00a0 I consumed about half a gallon of Gatorade between Sand Springs and Jordan.<\/p>\n

The result was clear.\u00a0 Not enough food consumed to fuel a punishing 78 miles ride through numerous large hills.\u00a0 My body just wanted to stop pedaling.<\/p>\n

In Jordan I tried to make up for the lost calories by consuming a lot of food.\u00a0 For part of my dinner I even tried \u201cRocky Mountain Oysters.\u201d\u00a0 They are fried cattle testicles and <\/span>not for the faint of heart.\u00a0 I thought they were tasty.\u00a0 Given how hungry I was, however, eating my socks might have also seemed tasty, so I will hold off judgement and try them again when I am not famished.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow\u2019s ride to Circle should be just as challenging since there is just one highway rest stop at the 35 mile point.\u00a0 There are no other services, shade, or places to stop\u00a0 between Jordan and Circle Montana.\u00a0 I expect another punishing day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Food and water are key to a successful day, especially in Eastern Montana because there are so few places to eat or drink.\u00a0 Between Winnett, Montana, where I spent last night and Jordan, Montana where I am sleeping tonight, there are 78 miles of punishing hills.\u00a0 The bike computer tells me I climbed 4,400 feet … Continue reading Day 14: Winnett to Jordan, Montana<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"parent":766,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893\/revisions\/894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/zagorsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}