I managed to get a hold of my son last night around 7:30 to find out how he's doing on his big first day of Ragbrai. He's supposed to bike 77 miles yesterday. From 8am to 7:30, he had gone aprox 50 miles... My brother and his Team Marley group apparently left him in the dust. Ryan must have been stopping to flirt with the pretty girls in all the towns they passed thru. That's all I can think of that might have slowed him down so badly.
So at 7:30, he's in the town of St. Marys. A full 15-20 miles left until Indianola. At 9:30, I hadn't heard from him, so I called again. He was in a car with our friends that he was going to stay with in Indianola. It had gotten too dark to ride and he doesn't have any lights on his bike, so he called them. He'd had about 10 miles left to go.
They are SUPER! and came to pick him up. He only has 44 miles to go today, so he should get there by nightfall... He better! Robb is driving down the 2 hours to pick him up tonight. Hope he's able to find him quickly. Thousands of bikers on the roads. Should be interesting...
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