Tomorrow, Matt and I will get up at an ungodly early time to head on down to Greenfield, IA, about 50 miles southwest of Des Moines. We will join the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa on Day 3.
We will be tweeting from the road tomorrow, so I signed up for a twitter account and all. You can follow us here:
http://twitter.com/30poundcat
There is also a link on the right side as well.
The ride is 77.1 miles long and covers over 4,000 feet of elevation. I am nervously anticipating the rolling hills of southern Iowa. This year's course has been called one of the hardest (yikes).
We will go through the towns of Orient, Macksburg, East Peru (pronounced "pay-roo"), Truro, St. Charles, St. Marys, Martensdale, Prole, and end in Indianola. We hope to get to Indianola, but if it's not looking good, we'll probably stop in Truro at the farm and call it a day.
RAGBRAI is the oldest organized bike ride in the country, and is in its 37th year. Only 8,000 people get week-long passes from the lottery to ride, and they allocate about 1,500 daily passes. So, roughly 10,000 people will be riding tomorrow!
Lincoln is a big cat originally from the mean streets of Chicago now living in the idyllic burbs of Iowa. He blogs about life in general - focusing on the little ankle biters who generally leave him alone and don't pull his tail or whiskers.
1 comment:
Best of luck! Can't wait to hear all about it! I admire your "gutzpa". Is that a word?
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