by Mark | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
OSKALOOSA — The rain has stopped but skies are overcast as cyclists make their way toward Fairfield this morning. Thousands of RAGBRAI campers and late-night partiers dealt with rain on and off throughout Thursday night. Many riders this morning are decked out...
by Mark | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
RAGBRAI cyclists could get a brief soak this morning near Oskaloosa, the National Weather Service reports. Light rain could fall along the beginning portion of today’s route of the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. “It’s really just some light stuff...
by Mark | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here’s a quick primer about today’s 52-mile ride from Oskaloosa to Fairfield: WEATHER: It could be stormy early this morning. The afternoon will be mostly cloudy. Highs will be much cooler, in the mid-70s. TONIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT: Main Stage Entertainment: Spazmatics...
by Mark | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
PELLA, Ia. – Marty Doane specializes in the crucial grimy side of the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. Coverage of this fabled trek tends to be dominated by either the awestruck newbies, or the diehards with sculpted calf muscles and scads of...
by Mark | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Laura Baker, the 26-year-old graduate student from Waverly who doesn’t remember riding her first RAGBRAI last year because of a traumatic brain injury she suffered in a bike crash in August in Colorado, ended her comeback ride Wednesday night after struggling...
by Mark | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tom Osran is a lawyer by trade. Before that he spent five years as a journalist, but his true calling is as a comedian. Or maybe not. That probably depends on who you ask. The Chicago native is on his 16th journey across the state cracking jokes and trying to make...
