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July 12th 2009
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2009 NSR


I had the pleasure of participating in the 2009 Not Superman Rally. Its a 54 hour endurance rally for motorcyclist. It was made of two 27 hour legs, each with a mandatory 3 hour rest break. The purpose of the rally is to collect as many points as you can during each one of the legs. Points are collected by taking pictures of the bonus locations with your rally flag also showing in the picture. Some bonuses are different but for the most part that is what is required. Usually the farther the location from the starting point the higher point level it is worth. The bonus listing, a list of all the available bonuses, was emailed to us on the 2nd of July this gave the riders over a week to come up with a route for each leg. I am not a challenger in these rallies but I usually have a lot of fun and like doing one once a year. This is my 3rd endurance rally and the longest one. The first was in 2007, a 26 hour rally, the Cape Fear 1000. My second rally was the 2008 NSR last year which was 30 hours. Like I said I
Bonus #59 BIG CLERK  worth 66pts Bonus #59 BIG CLERK  worth 66pts Bonus #59 BIG CLERK worth 66pts

Metropolis, IL=Big Johns are well-meaning hulks, hoisting car-sized bags filled with groceries in the parking lots of their Big John food stores. Big Johns are 28 to 30 feet tall, usually clad in checkered shirts, blue jeans, an apron and comical bulbous black shoes.
am not a challenger for top 10 place, I won’t speed. Too cheap to pay a ticket or the increase in insurance, plus it just not worth the stress. My goals are to have fun, get some more states, cities and counties for my 2009 ABC’s of Touring challenge, complete the rally and not leave any points on the scoring table. Not coming in last would be a big plus too.

I had planned on taking off on Thursday morning for the rally, but had not planned on working until 1AM the night before. 9AM Thursday I am on the road heading to Jackson MO, I only have around 390 miles to travel. Check in and odometer checks were happening between 2:30PM and 4PM. I was around 3:15PM when I pulled into the host hotel and was greeted by a smiling Dave Derrick and Jim Puckett. I was welcomed, my odometer was read and I was sent on a little jaunt back up the interstate I had just pulled off of. 25 miles later I find I will have no odometer correction factor and I check in with the admin. The riders meeting is 7PM, bring my camera and
#47 COAL MINER 110pts #47 COAL MINER 110pts #47 COAL MINER 110pts

Providence, KY = This statue of a coal miner by Steve Shields stands on the corner of the Providence Main Street Park. Providence, KY has been and still has a long history with coal mining.
laptop. I opted to stay at the Motel 8 as it was $20 cheaper so I headed over and checked in.

The Thursday night riders meeting mostly was over the self scoring at the end of the rally. As the meeting grew longer the room got hotter. I am used to the heat as I don’t have air conditioning at home, yes there are still some of us out here, but even I am fanning myself with a road map I had at the ready. The meeting closes when envelopes are handed out and everyone is given the opportunity to insert their drivers license. The envelopes were signed by the rally masters and given back. Its worth 150 points if that is returned at the end of the rally unopened. During the riders meeting I met a couple charactors, one being Ed Tillman, who kept most of us in the immediate area smiling.

We are told to be in the back of the hotel ready to ride at 5:30am, start was scheduled for 6am. When I showed up at 5:27AM I was told we were going to be released at 5:30AM, a half hour early. Dave checked me
#82 TIME CAP 178pts #82 TIME CAP 178pts #82 TIME CAP 178pts

Elizabethtown, KY = The capsule was placed there on September 1976 to celebrate the Bi-centennial. It is to be opened in 2076. There is a copy of the local paper as well as many other items of that time period.
in, by checking my odometer and watching me reset the trip information on my GPSs. Starting odometer 116742. The group was released at 5:30. I didn’t leave with the group but ran inside and grabbed a couple bagels to eat as I rode. I selected my preprogrammed route and headed out. Amazingly I was not the last one to leave. Last year I did 1255 miles in the 24 hours I rode in the rally. Using that as a basis my Leg 1 route would be 1205 miles. It was made so the night hours I would be on interstate. True or not I believe that I have less of a chance being hit by a deer while on the interstate. I also wanted to pick up more eastern states for my ABCs, WV, OH and IN were looking pretty sweet. So my route was a run out to WV and OH, swinging low going there and swinging high coming back and picking up IN.

All the info included with my bonus pictures here in this blog was taken directly from the rally book.

LEG 1
My first bonuses were little ones. It was a nice little ride to Metropolis, IL not to get a picture of the huge superman but to get a picture of Big Johns backside. Big John stands outside a grocery store and holds 4 bags of grocerys. It wasn't too far and I was at my second bonus the coal miner statue in a little corner park in the pleasent little community of Providence, KY. I pulled into the parking lot, looking around to see how I could take the picture and getting my bearings on the area. As I am still sitting on my bike a dumpster truck pulls in and pulls up really close to my bike. I turn and look and its driver wondering what hes trying to prove. To my surprise he wants to know if I need any directions, if I'm lost. I usually look lost, because I usually feel lost. Then he wants to discuss my bike. He wonders if I am heading to Sturgis. Its a couple minutes and with my thanks for his concern he pulls his truck out and I dismount to go get my bonus picture. I am using 2 cameras for every bonus. Jim just wants VGA pictures for his database, but
#92 WW ARCH 329pts #92 WW ARCH 329pts #92 WW ARCH 329pts

Huntington, WV = Dedicated to those lost in World War I, the picturesque arch which is a 1/4 reproduction of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the adjacent tree line park affords visitors and picnickers alike pleasurable opportunities. This was a nice little park.
if you publish pics in magazines that is too low resolution to submit. So I have one camera set to VGA and then the second to 5MP. The second camera has a zoom on as standard, so frequently I have to back up another 10-15 feet to get the same picture as the first camera. I have to cross the street here to get my second picture. As I come back one of the ladies from the adjoining business is out watering the flowers in the little park. It was a nice little park, just a corner of the intersection with plenty of benchs, shade and flowers. A perfect place to sit and read a book during an afternoon. As I passed her I told her this was a really nice little park. She looked up at me smiling and thanked me.

Now it was on the interstate for some time savings. Its HOT. I have 3 liters of iced water in a camelbak bladder in my tank bag and I have been drinking. But its still pretty hot. I have gotten onto the habit of releasing that warm water that is usually present in the drinking tube on my blue jeans at my inner thigh. That helps keeping me cool. It works well as long as I don't get off the bike before it dries, because it looks like I pee'd down the side of my legs.

My first bonus of any substance is the Time Capsule at Elizabethtown KY. I was reluctant to include a bonus in a graveyard. Many times they are very hard to find unless you know specifically where in the graveyard they are. A few weeks earlier I had spent an hour looking for the grave of the Clutter family in the Valley View Cemetary, Garden City KS. The Clutters were the family of 4 killed 50 years ago in Holcomb KS. Truman Capote wrote a book about the murders and aftermath called In Cold Blood. I knew what the gravesite looked like and approximately where it was supposed to be. Finally I found a grounds keeper that told me where it was.

The bonus location for the time capsule stated it was at an entrance. The bonus info read: "The capsule was placed there on September 1976 to celebrate the Bi-centennial. It is to be opened in 2076. There is a copy of the local paper as well as many other items of that time period." This led me to some trouble at the site. There was indeed a Bi-centennial capsule, but it was the cities bi-centennial not the countries. So the capsule I found was actually placed in 1979 to be opened in 2079, I looked throughout the cemetary and didn't find another capsule so I went back photographed the one at the entrance.

On the eastern edge of KY I am riding on wet roads but its not raining. The overcast skies provide a welcome relief from the heat. Its 1PM and will not be ridding in the heat again this leg, but will be on wet roads most of the way back to the check point. The 4th bonus took me to WV. This was the major reason I made this loop, I could pick up 3 states I did not already have for the ABCs of Touring. WV, OH and IN. Along the whole rally I am also picking up counties and cities that I need to complete my ABCs. I end up picking up 12 ABC sites during the rally. I spent more time
#20 WASHBRD 376pts #20 WASHBRD 376pts #20 WASHBRD 376pts

Logan, OH = The Columbus Washboard Company, now located in Logan, Ohio, is "home" to the World's Largest Washboard. This is the ONLY washboard factory in the western hemisphere and they ship products worldwide. Free factory tours can be arranged
finding the post office for my WV ABC picture than I did finding the ARCH bonus. The roads Garmin wanted to route me down have been deadends for a long time and all the streets in the area are one ways. Finally I asked a local gave me quick directions.

The arch was just down the road from where I had waypointed it, I was thankful. The arch though was kind of disappointing. I have seen the orginal Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It is awespiring. It is covered in relief work that has some great symbolism. Although nice on its own as a replica or reproduction of the Arc de Triomphe this WV one was seriously lacking in the basics. It did not have any of the wonderful relief work of the original. The original isn't a simple arch like the one found here, it actually has 4 legs and has an inside corridor with 4 entrances filled with relief work and history. After I take my pictures I move on.

Now its back to some fun roads. On the mapping software they looked like a hoot and indeed they are. Really great ride, but I am
#21 BASKETwl 352pts #21 BASKETwl 352pts #21 BASKETwl 352pts

Newark, OH = The Basket building is a replica -- 160 times larger -- of Longaberger's Medium Market Basket. It's 192 ft. long by 126 ft. wide at the bottom, spreading to 208-ft. long by 142-ft. wide at the roofline. It is a magnificent sight -- especially at night.
loosing time by taking them. Most of my time heading to the next bonus I am travelling on OH 93. I am off for the worlds largest washboard in Logan, OH. When I headed into town I soon realize I am in a Norman Rockwell painting. Small town America doing what they do best, free concerts at the towns bandstand. The businesses along the street had benchs out front and they were full of more town folk enjoying the music. This prompted me to pull over and gather my camera for a few shots. It took a couple u-turns to find the bonus but it was soon bagged and I am on my way.

More fun roads to my furthest bonus for this leg. I fill up with gas before I get to the Longaberger basket building. Now this is a replica of a basket. It was amazing. It looked just like a giant basket. The windows were used to look like the uprights a weave is done around. I just sat and looked at it for 3 minutes before I even got off the bike. That alone was worth the trip to OH. This building might account for
#44 BUCKTOOTH GUY 154pts #44 BUCKTOOTH GUY 154pts #44 BUCKTOOTH GUY 154pts

Lakeside, MO = Crazy-looking bucktoothed guy holding a lantern on Lake of the Ozark's Bagnell Dam Strip. Old Time Photos shop Ad Man.
why their baskets are so expensive too.

After the Longabergers building it was interstate for the most part all the way back to the checkpoint. I was tired and didn’t want to dick with trying to photograph water towers and covered bridges at night, so I skipped the last 2 bonuses I had planned to get and headed straight back to the host hotel. Good thing, I ran into some rain and blinding heavy fog on the way. This slowed me way down and I got back with only 17 minutes to spare, its 5:12am. I planned on taking my 3 hour rest break here at the hotel, anyone wanting to do this and not spend $80 on a room was welcome to sleep on the floor of our meeting room, that was my plan. As I checked in at the checkpoint, I was told I won the prize. Jokingly. One of the 12 hour rally riders had left the key for his room for anyone wanting to use it for their rest break. The 12 hour rally started that morning at 5:30am, check out wasn’t until noon so the room was available. What a wonderful thing to do.
#45 TWN SIGH 327pts #45 TWN SIGH 327pts #45 TWN SIGH 327pts

Humbolt, KS = Welcome sign to Humboldt, KS posted at the south end of town on 9th Street (Old US 169). A duplicate sign is at the north end of town.
It says alot about a guy that would come up with doing that. Steve Maxwell thank you so much man, you are aces in my book. I'm sure many 12 hour riders would have offered their keys if asked, but Steve thought of it on his own. I gladly accepted and slept very well in his room for the next 3 hours. I had ridden 1178 miles in Leg 1. I had all the reciepts and this would qualify for a SS1K, out at 5:42 am and in by 5:12 am. I was toying with the idea of doing the second leg the same way and completing a SS1Kx2 or whatever they call it. My second leg was designed to be shorter but still over 1K miles.

LEG 2
Damn snooze button. At 8:40am I am down the street at a bank to get my ending receipt. I needed a time stamped receipt for the start and end of each rest break, they can not be more than 2.5 miles apart. I am wearing my sweat pants, because the seams in my blue jeans are making life absolutely unbearable. I have stated on many previous occasions that my bike
#01 AMELIA EARHART 227 #01 AMELIA EARHART 227 #01 AMELIA EARHART 227

Atchison, KS = Visit the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum. Amelia Earhart endures in the American consciousness as one of the world's most celebrated aviators. Amelia remains a symbol of the power and perseverance of American women, and the adventurous spirit so essential to the American persona.
is the most comfortable place in the world for me to be, this morning I am rethinking this. Every rub, seam or usual minor irritation has moved up the scale. I start with my rain pants on as its wet and forecasted for rain my whole route today. Then its off to my first bonus. I took some fun roads getting there. They were wet but there is no rain. Its way hot. I always plan in some fun roads. Time be screwed, if it ain’t got some good roads then its not worth it. Its HOT again but I don't want to stop to peel off my rain suit, so I sit in the sauna suit until I get to Lakeside MO, part of the Lake of the Ozarks. I grab some lunch at Wendys, my first meal in since the 2 bagels I munched on the day before for brunch. I also take the time to peel the rain suit. I should have taken the time to refill my camelbak with ice water. Its nearly empty, I had been getting that plastic/rubber taste with every sip. After a 20 minute stop at Wendy's its less than a mile
Amelia EarhartAmelia EarhartAmelia Earhart

This was taken on one of my previous trips to the birthsite, not a great picture but its the view from the street in front of the house. She was born at her grandparents house. The 2 bridges are over the Missouri River.
to the bonus. Its exactly where I waypointed it. The road out of here is US54, one of my favorites in KS. About 50 miles down the road I have a dry camelbak and its still HOT. I pulled into a gas station and filled it with ice first then added water. Loading it back in my tank bag I went back in the store and wet my t-shirt down in the restroom. I had wanted to do that at Wendy's but the bathroom had a line of women waiting to use the stalls, it didn't seem appropriate.

It had been raining in KS and western MO the overcast skies again gave a great relief from the heat it was around 3pm I would not ride in the heat the rest of this leg, nor would I ride in the rain. I got to tell you I thought I was really lucky with the weather for the whole rally. I had times of extreme heat but not for the whole rally, I really consider myself fortunate to have hit the right areas for the overcast skies just as I needed them.

Now I was in familiar territory so
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Jim is helping one of the riders enter his stuff in the database.
I was more at ease as I could do the rest of this rally without a map or GPS.

My next bonus was to get a national parks stamp. I rode toward Ft Scott KS and the old fort there. My grandparents lived in Ft Scott and as a kid I would spend weeks there visiting. I got to the fort just as they closed, but they let me in to stamp my rally book. I had to stamp it twice, the date had been moved up on the stamp so I have to adjust it back and restamp. The park rangers were not happy to let me in but they grudgingly did it. As long as I got in I didn't mind they were pissy about it. There is no picture.

From the rally book: #114 NATIONAL PARKS STAMP 100pts - You decide = At nearly all of the 391 American National Park (and many of the National Park Service's affiliated areas) will Stamp any document you present for free, providing you have gained access to the park in a legal method. The stamp is usually found at the main office or visitor center.

Humbolt KS
Dave DerrickDave DerrickDave Derrick

The other Rallymaster
was the next stop, the name of the bonus was Americas Hometown, the bonus was to get a picture of the welcome sign at the south end of town. As I rode into Humbolt from the east there was a welcome sign there that stated that Humbolt, Americans Hometown. Now I was please to see that it was a big sign that it was very clearly the one I was after, I just needed the one at the south end of town on 9th street. However when you get to the south side sign it no longer has the wording Americas Hometown. It instead displays a couple famous hometown baseball players, neither that I had heard of (but I don't follow any sports either). I think that maybe its a little farther down the road so I go down past the concrete factory or whatever it was and didn't see another sign. I returned to the orginal and took my required pictures. Pulled out my phone and thought of calling Jim or Dave but decided instead of waiting for my phone to turn on, that I would just take a picture of the city limits sign next to the welcome sign and another picture of the street signs, showing that I was at the south end of town and on 9th street. Its 6:30PM when I am leaving Humbolt.

On the way back toward Kansas City I decide to drop the Piggy Bank bonus again I don't want to mess with it in the dark and maybe even the Earhart birthsite bonus. It will be close getting there by dark. I am sqirming in the saddle alot now. Its very hard to find a comfortable position and even then its only comfortable for a very short period of time. The funny thing is that I had just thrown out a 225 point bonus (the piggy bank) and a 227 point bonus was on its way out when I remembered that I had not gotten gas at Humbolt. Without a gas reciept from my furthest bonus in the second leg then I would loose the 66 points of that bonus. Unwilling to turn around and go back to Humbolt, I decided to proceed to Amelia's birthplace, I could not loose that 66 pt gas bonus. Can you tell I wasn't thinking at 100%.

A gas stop in my home town of Garnett and then to Amelia Earhart’s birthsite. This is one of my favorite places to ride to. 60 miles from home with a variety of interesting routes to get there. Frequently I can be found on the brick street, under the shade tree in front of that house. I love the view from that hill. It is no wonder she wanted to learn to fly. She was born at her grandparents house. It sits atop a cliff in a row of 2 story homes that all overlook the Missouri river and wide expanse of valley beyond that. Someday I might get off the bike and take a tour of the house. BTW this is also the route that Lewis and Clark took on thier little jaunt. I got there just after sundown, but it was not really dark yet, so the pictures were just a litte dark.

I filled up at Atchison to get that precious gas receipt from the farthest bonus on leg 2. Those 66 points are now in the bag. This was the last of the set I would need for that bonus. Now was the time to decide if I was going to go for the second SS. I was miserble but I didn't think a quick rest bonus was going to change that anyway. I wasn't sleepy. If I made it back to the rally point by 5:42am I would have done it. According to my GPS I had time, it might be close. But the problem was I would be in Jackson 6 hours before the deadline. I would have 12 hours before I was planning on heading home. 10 hours with little to do and no where to do it.

It was home bound to take my Leg 2 rest bonus, my bed was sounding pretty good. There was the 3 hour mandatory rest bonus, but I had decided I was going to take a longer one. It officially started at 23:58 Saturday night. Before it started I had run by my work for about 30 minutes to get something done. This meant I didn't need to be at work quite so early on Monday. At 4:20AM I was on my way back to the barn. It was really hard to not quit and just stay home. It was going to be the boring ride across MO on I-70 that I dread. I was not only going to be doing it for the second time in 2 days but I knew I would also have to come back on it again that night or early morning. I am in some serious pain at this point and I seem to hurt everywhere. My feet are hot trobbing raw meat, it had started as a little place that one toe was rubbing on my boot, that swelled and more toes added to the rub over last 24 hours. Both feet hurt, there was no comfortable position for them to be in. The long bones in the top of the foot all feel like they are out of joint and need to be popped back into position. The boots that I normally wear when riding and work fine are a major cause of pain at this point. They are my only waterproof boots and I am expecting to ride home in thunderstorms, wet hurting feet didn't cound like a better option. I am still in my sweatpants, I did wash them out though and they are still wet. I could not find a comfortable position to sit in. All my foot pegs seems to be located badly, mids, forwards and passenger pegs all seemed to just inches from where they should be but off enough to not provide a comfortable position to ride in. I am amazed at how really uncomfortable Effie had become over the last 24 hours. Before I considered her an extention of me, she just fit, but now she was anything but. The entire ride there I am thinking about the horrid ride I will have coming home. I am also thinking about the IBR guys and doing this ride for 10 days. I grew a whole new respect for those guys. I had learned over those 50 hours how much harder it gets the longer the ride goes. I did my SS1000 in 2005, while on an ABC trip, the weather was bad and I had other issues on the ride. It still wasn't hard, my official data was 1100 miles in 20 hours. I frequently tell guys that want to do the SS1K but are nervous about the ride that its over rated, its really not that hard. If your bike is reasonably comfortable and you have some experience with riding (not bar hopping), you shouldn't have a problem, people do it on mopeds. What I learned over the weekend was that the 2nd consecutive SS1000 is exponentially more difficult.

389 miles later I check in. Its 10:12 on Sunday morning. I had until Noon to check in. 1000.2 miles for the second leg. Ending odometer 118936. I figured I would be the first one in, but soon learn I am #7. This really surprises me. I told the rally masters this rally was like Marine Corp bootcamp, glad I did it once, but now I’m smarter and wouldn’t do that shit again. 2 days is too long for me, although I know some more things I need to tweak to get Effie to fit better. As he is checking me in I told Dave Derrick that I had a whole new respect for the IBR guys.. and it took alot for me to get out of my bed and finish this rally. Dave laughed and told me that was a rule, never take a rest bonus at your home, for that exact reason. Trying to encourage me he tells me that I just need to build up to it, try another 2 day or go for a 3 day... I interrupted him to inform him... "The 3rd day I shoot myself in the head".

Over the next 3 hours I organize and submit my bonuses through the self scoring website and then my documentation pack is handed over along with the 6 reciepts. 2 were gas reciepts and the other 4 were rest bonus stops and starts. Self scoring is okay, but I miss sitting across the table from the unforgiving scorer, proving you have all your Ps & Qs right, getting to debrief on the ride. That was the end of the ride, when I could made his numbers match my numbers, self scoring is well anti-climatic.

I was surprised again to learn that several people had dropped out at the end of leg 1. At least I won’t be last, Bob Rippy and I do a low five that neither of us are last. A mutual fear we had shared before the rally. Actually Bob comes in #11, well done! This was his first long rally, before he had only done the 12 hours versions. I know Bob from a couple years ago, I went on a ride with his HOG group. The Frozen Bun Run, commemorating the coldest day in MO history. The day of the ride it was below freezing for part of it and d*&n cold for all of it. It wasn't some wussy ride to a diner a couple blocks away either, it was around 25-30 miles one way if I remember right.

I do these as recreation, but many of these guys are highly motivated and highly competitive in the rallys. I had special interest in the progress of 2 other riders, that I had never met. Last year I was the only woman rider and the only Harley in the long rally. There was one other woman rider this year in the 54 hour rally. I learned she had quit after the rest bonus in Leg 1. She had come from Jacksonville FL to ride in the rally. There was one other Harley in the 54 hour rally, it had crashed in Hot Springs AR during the second leg the owner had ridden it to a hospital to get stitches in his chin then he rode it back to a motel and quit, but after taking a rest break decided to finish leg 2. That is one tough guy. It was a 2006-HD-FLHTCUI it only suffered cosmetic damage other than a mirror, fender and crash bar. That rider was from Canada. He actually placed 4 spots higher in the final standings than I did. I had a very nice conversation with him. He introduced himself as 'the other Harley'.

Of the 42 riders registered for the 54 hour rally, I thought 36 actually started, but only 30 are listed on the results webpage as having started the rally. For the 54 hour rally 26 finished. I was ranked 18th among the finishers. The remaining participants were DNF (did not finish) could be because they quit or they were time barred. That is they came in too late (after 12:30).

The closing banquet was BBQ. There were pork steaks that had to be 20 oz, huge! There was also ribs, chicken and all kinds of food, these banquets are always all you can eat, because everyone is very hungry, not wanting to take time to eat full meals while in the rally. Even the baked potato seemed to have exceptional flavor. The fellowship was great. These rally guys are so friendly and welcoming. It was an awesome meal. Listening to the speaker John Ryan talk of his ride into the history books was also an experience I will remember. What a quite guy. It must have taken a little bit to get him to speak in front of our group.

I wanted to get to the west side of St Louis MO on Sunday night so Monday morning I would not have to deal with rush hour traffic while heading into and through the city. Jackson is 100 miles south of St. Louis so this would also put me around 4 hours from home if I started on the west side of St Louis. Earlier in the day I had waypointed a couple exits that had $26 motels at them so I knew there was some cheap lodging in that area. Day light was burning so unfortunately I was one of the first to leave the banquet. I got to say my goodbyes to rallymaster Jim but couldn't find Dave. I think it was around 19:45 when I pulled out of the parking lot. In shorter time than I thought I was past St Louis. A bed was sounding really good, but it was the boots that kept me going. I wanted my boots off really bad. But the thought of putting them back on was unbearable. No worries as I was too uncomfortable to fall asleep on the bike. I stopped frequently to stretch and move, so it was 2:30am when I pulled into my garage and tucked Effie in for the night.

Note to self: Find out where you buy comic books.

Starting odometer 116336
Rally Starting odometer 116742
Rally Ending odometer 118936
Ending odometer 119299

2194 miles for the rally, 5126 points.
2963 miles for the trip.

Rally data from my GPS:
Overall avg speed 45.8 MPH
Moving Average 55.9MPH
Max speed 73.6MPH (that was when I passed someone)

My Bonuses
bonus # == PTS == DESC
103 == 75 == WAIVER & RELEASE
104 == 25 == SELF INSPECTION
105 == 25 == DECLARE ROUTES
59 == 66 == IL 59 BIG CLERK 66
47 == 110 == KY 47 COAL MINR 110
82 == 178 == KY 82 TIME CAP 178
92 == 329 == WV 92 WW ARCH 329
20 == 376 == OH 20 WASHBRD 376
115 == 66 == OH 115 GAS STOP
21 == 352 == OH 21 BASKETwl 352
107 == 750 == LEG 1 REST STOP AT COMFORT INN
106 == 1000 == CHECKPOINT BONUS
44 == 154 == MO 44 BUCKTOOTH GUY 154
114 == 100 == KS 114 NATIONAL PARKS STAMP 100
45 == 327 == KS 45 TWN SIGH 327
1 == 227 == KS 01 AMELIA EARHART 227
115 == 66 == KS 115 GAS STOP
108 == 750 == LEG 2 REST BONUS
116 == 150 == DRIVERS LICENSE
113 == 0 == End of Rally check in

I have competed in 2 other endurance rallies here are the blogs for those:
08 Not Superman Rally
07 Cape Fear 1000



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16th July 2009

Great read
Sounds like you had fun. I plan on doing a rally soon ... I think .... just not sure the Shadow 750 and I are up to it. I have two SS1000 and a BB1500 under my belt so far. Glad to see another cruiser out there! Ride Safe, Alec IBA, AMA
18th July 2009

I see your point Jim. Great Rally, thanks so much for offering it! I had a hoot. And its always great to get a chance to talk with riders of that caliber.
18th July 2012

Great report
Great ride and report! I like the pics too.

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