Celebrate with me; I’ve made the lottery and, Lord willing, will be riding my 3rd Ragbrai this summer!
For those of you unfamiliar with Ragbrai, let me explain. Ragbrai is a week long bike ride across Iowa sponsored by the Des Moines River. This year will be the 37th ride. It started out as a few people doing an informal ride for a series of newspaper articles and has expanded to the point where they’ve had to cap the participation at 10,000 official riders. Yes, 10,000 – 8,500 week long riders and 1,500 daily riders. Of course, there are also thousands of other people involved in the ride. Last year one estimate suggested that there were over 30,000 riders on one of the days!
Anyhow, the lottery came out today and I made it. Yea! Now, to get on my bike and start racking up some miles…
Grace and Peace,
`tim
