Well, just as an aside, on my first cross country ride we had this young guy on the ride who was a linebacker on his college football team. We did a very circuitous route starting in Bellingham, WA heading East and had already done 3,000 plus miles by the time we hit North Dakota. This is where we ran into this diner that had an ongoing pie eating contest where the pies were free if you could beat the record. I can't remember how much the linebacker actually ate but he beat the record by an entire pie. I could tell they were pissed but what could they do? It was actually funny to see him devastate the record by so much. We still had thirty miles to ride out of an 85 mile day but he made it. I've ridden cross country three times and just finished a ride the entire length of the Mississippi. I actually don't like the riding so much ... I do these tours for the small town diners and their pies with the knowledge I can eat as much as I want and still not get fat.