Kaeding trades training camp for ride across Iowa

For Nate Kaeding, the last Friday of July has typically meant the start of training camp. This year, the former Iowa Hawkeye football star will be winding down his first RAGBRAI, a perk of not having to spend July gearing up to go back to work. It’s the first...

Expect storms tonight, rain Friday along RAGBRAI route

Thunderstorms expected to form in northwest Iowa this afternoon will probably affect tonight’s overnight stop in Oskaloosa and Friday’s ride to Fairfield, meteorologists said. Tonight, thunderstorms should move through central Iowa during the mid-evening...

Zipline in Pella draws crowd

It was a long wait for the zipline but RAGBRAI riders stuck in out in Pella. Insurance issues kept a zipline that took up most of a block in Pella closed for much of the morning. But there were still plenty of cyclists around to form a long line when in opened around...

Teachers rack up the RAGBRAIs, and the memories

Pella, Ia. – It’s the classic first-day-of-school question: What did you do this summer? And when it comes up in room 4B at Crossroads Elementary School in West Des Moines, the new batch of wide-eyed fourth graders in Ms. (Carol) Mahlendorf’s class...