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University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1962
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Cyclists pedal 84 miles in Octoginta main tour
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
A half-mile long snake of bicycles and bright colors inched out of Broken Arrow Park yesterday at 8 a.m. to a main tour of the 1982 Octogenta.
The 84-mile tour attracted 370 bicyclists, said Richard Poots, secretary of the Mount Oread/Sunflower Surpurs Bicycle Club, and they pedaled the first 12 miles together behind a police escort. Fresh dew, soon to be replaced by pearls of persipation, clung to their clothes in the morning light.
Marei Francisco, mayor of Lawnies, introduced the tour for the fourth time.
"Every now and then, I try to convince the other commissioners that there are people who ride bicycles." Francisco said, smiling at the crowd. "Nothing helps so much as having all of you here at the same time."
Gray clouds threatened to dampen the tour, but no rain or sunshine sneaked out of the sky. Side winds forced the bicyclists to exert extra effort during most of the tour, said Lance Tomlin, Wichita senior.
The 12-year-old tour was an easy jaunt for experienced cyclists, but some of the novice riders said they ached when it was over.
"NONE OF my sweat ever stuck to my body," Tomlin said. "It just blew off."
"In those last 20 miles, the hills were really bad," said Eddie Davalos, onward Park junior "I just kept thinking, O, Gawd, not another hit."
However, Bruce Minor, a management analyst from Leawood, said he had completed a similar course in three hours and five minutes recently.
Davalos said the hills did not get any worse as the tour went on, but his wife was still at the bottom.
"I usually try to ride 300 miles a week." Minor said.
ALMOST EVERYONE who started the tour finished it. Potis said, despite the windy 56-degree weather. However, Devalos said a few bicycleiers ruined the track on the rough railroad tracks near Ottawa, where the group stoped for lunch.
After 44 miles of bicycling, the vegetarian lunch tasted good, said Minor, 44, the oldest member of the bicycle club. The bicycle club provided generic peanut butter, vegetable soup, rice cakes and bread to the hungry cyclists.
Four cyclists leave Broken Arrow Park to begin the bicycle or leisure meet, the sixth of seven events conducted as part of the 1987 Oderstein
"I hate to stop here and start again," said Joanie Rohr, a high school junior from Wichita. "My legs get really sore. It feels better just to keep going."
Although some cyclists rode alone, Rohr said she could not finish the ride without the moral support of a companion.
"IN A RACE, racers take food out of their packets and eat it while they race," Minor said.
"I always have someone there to go," she said, "I have to keep a watch going."
The leisurely pace of the Octoginta differed radically from bicycle races, Minor said.
Bicycle enthusiasts enjoyed shorter tours Saturday and participated in orienteering and timed races.
in orienteering, bicyclists and runners studied maps of Lawrence for three minutes. Then they spent an hour running through the course. Participants were penalized 6 points for
Bicyclists came from towns throughout the Midwest to participate in the Octoginta. The tour was one of many thatracted them to Lawrence this weekend.
each minute of they were late to the finish line.
They threaded through the streets of Lawrence to find as many of the markers as they could in the time period.
PEOPLE HAVE WON the event with scores as low as negative 24 points in the past. Wee told the group before the event began.
"This year's Bike-O had the smallest attendance ever, but the enthusiasm of those who were there was the best." said Gene Wee, organizer of the event
"If you don't want to score, you can just sit here," he said.
The event did not resemble most orienteering at all, said Karan Keith, Leawood senior.
"The basic idea of reading a map and finding points is the same, but actually the competition is quite a bit different," Keith said. "In most orienteering, you have to get the markers and you have to get them in order. They're no worth points at all."
You have to be able to read a map, read a compass, make decisions quickly and relate the terrain around you to the map."
Special gold medals, apple juice in fancy bottles, were given to the top couple and individual winners. We said. Almost everyone who participated went home with an award, he said.
"Normally, it's all done in the woods.
Six members of the KU Orienteering Club will go to the national meet in Pennsylvania Thursday. 14-8
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