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Dick Emery from Weston, MO on 5/26/2009 3:18:28 PM:
My goal for next year is to ride a 100-mile-day on the KATY. I am debating which part of the trail would be best to do this. I have riden the trail in four days the past two Memorial Day weekends. I am thinking the ride from Easley west to Clinton would be best. I am thinking I would climb the hill from Boonville west to Pilot Groove and avoid the hill from Sedalia east to Pilot Groove. Does any one have an opinion?

 
Trek on 5/26/2009 7:51:37 PM:
If you're up for the task, 100 miles is 100 miles...we rode a century from Boonville to N. Jefferson and back a couple of years ago. No hills with pretty evenly spaced trailheads. The Hotel Frederick was a good place to land afterwards too. And I hear there is a good, very inexpensive shuttle service out of Boonville too! Just in case.

 
Doug from Bluffton on 5/26/2009 9:03:45 PM:
Nice one Trek!

 
jd from gkc on 5/26/2009 9:46:38 PM:
Unless you want to view your chosen section of the trail only once during that 100-mile ride, you might consider selecting a 50-mile section, and then riding it both ways in a day. That way you'll have your vehicle with you in the evening, and won't need a shuttle service to take you back to it. This two-way riding is something the locals do a lot at varying distances.

Riders will also go out 25-miles or so in one direction from a trailhead, then ride back to this trailhead (where their vehicle is)for lunch. After lunch, they go 25-miles in the opposite direction, and then ride back to their vehicle for dining out somewhere that evening, or for going home or a place to stay that night.