She Rode A Double Century

Denver glories In many rewa-breakIng wheelmen and also in one recordbreaking wheelwoman. Mrs. Kinehart, a society beauty, who recently rode a doublé century in twenty and onethird hours. The "Cycllng West" says this is the flrst time a woman has made euch a rlde, that few men are able to accomplish the feat, and that no Coloradoan has ever done it. Mra. Rinehart left her home in Denver Wednesday morning a week ago at 4:05 and completed her first century over the Evans course at 12:45, or eight hours and forty minutes for the trip. After lunch and a rest of an hour, she started at 1:45 p. m. for the second half of her ride. She rode to Platteville, thirtysix miles, and returned to Denver making seventy-two miles and completed the balance of the doublé century on the Lattleton course. When she had flnirhed at 12:45 Thursday morning her cyclometer registered 203 miles. She endured many hardships especially on the last century. Before going Uiteen miles on the Platteville road, and after making 113 miles, she encountered a rain Btorm. This continued until she found herself pushing through isolated mud holes and immense stretches of water, which submerged the road in many places. The last thirty miles was where her great pluck and endurance were brought into play. The dlstance waa donO in inky darkness. She was accompanied by her husband, who would have gladly relinquished any glory to Bit beside a flre in a comfortable home in preference to bravlng the big electrical storm which swept over Denver on that nlght, sending sheets of rain in the faces of pedestrlans and covering the road with shlmmering pools of water, discernible only when a flash of lightning llt up the road ahead. To make matters worse Mrs. Rinehart's ire punctured on the Littleton course and she rode fifteen miles on a flat tire. Vo summarize the time and conditlons of her ride she made 203 miles in twenty hours and twenty minutes; rode flrst century in 8:40, aecond in 10:40; flfty miles were ridclen in rain, darkness and mud; she was alone for 172 miles f the trip; haö only twenty-three miles f favorable ;wind, and rode flfteen