Ragbrai!

Thursday July 23rd Morgan and I rode a day of Ragbrai. This is an annual bike ride across the state of Iowa.

We rode a total of 80 miles in one day. We followed the route from Cedar Falls to Hiawatha and then rode up to Marion where we had parked our truck the night before.

We could not have done it without Morgan's mom, she watched our kids for us!

It was really fun to be on a bike ride with over 10,000 other people. State troopers were along the route at intersections stopping cars from going through. There were  few times when the troopers asked us to stop so cars could pass, but it didn't happen often.

Morgan got sunburned on his quads where the shorts rubbed off the sunscreen. I got a sunburn on my nose, and we were both a little saddlesore by the time it was over.  I definitely would do it again. Next time I would want to leave a little earlier in the morning and try and take a slightly more relaxed pace.

Next on our radar is a century, or 100 miles. We will ride from the Evansdale River Bridge Trailhead to the Cedar Valley Nature Trailhead on Boyson Road in Cedar Rapids and then back up. After doing 80 miles on Thursday I am confident that we can do the century. Although, we will probably wait until October when the weather should be a little cooler.