The Official 2021 RAGBRAI Route Has Been Announced
Get your bikes ready!
After a disappointing 2020, organizers behind the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa are gearing up for an exciting 2021! Last April, they were forced to cancel the event because of the coronavirus pandemic, but they opted to keep the planned route the same for 2021, with a few small changes.
Over the weekend, this year s official RAGBRAI route was announced during an event at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City. According to an article on RAGBRAI s website, the ride will take place July 25th through July 31st. The article says:
Waterloo To Serve As 2021 Overnight RAGBRAI Stop
When the Register s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa makes a stop in the Cedar Valley this summer, participants will pedal through Evansdale and Elk Run Heights for the first time in the event s near half-century history.
Waterloo has been selected to host an overnight stop on the world s largest organized bicycle ride for the fourth time, along with Iowa Falls. The 48th annual week-long, state-wide event is scheduled for July 25-31, starting in Le Mars and ending in Clinton.
This year s event will feature a climb of 11,481 feet, making it the 16th flattest in RAGBRAI history. Organizers released the official route over the weekend.
The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI, has officially announced the route for this summer’s ride. The event will run from July 25th through the 31st. It will begin in Le Mars with subsequent overnight stops in Sac City, Fort Dodge, Iowa Falls, Waterloo, Anamosa, and DeWitt before finishing up in Clinton. Riders will be in Waterloo on July 28th. Tavis Hall, Director of Experience Waterloo, says he expects a couple million dollars in tourism revenue from RAGBRAI. Last year’s ride was cancelled due to the pandemic. This summer will also see the first time that there will be a competing ride across Iowa in the form of Iowa’s Ride, which will run July 18th through July 24th and will run east to west, beginning in Dubuque with stops in Monticello, Vinton, Eldora, Clarion, Emmetsburg, Sheldon, and finishing in Rock Rapids.
Gravel day, virtual ride, fall ride highlight RAGBRAI calendar of events in 2021
31 January, 2021
Philip Joens, Des Moines Register
An optional full day of gravel riding and Virtual RAGBRAI 2.0 will highlight the 2021 RAGBRAI calendar. Here are the details:
RAGBRAI gravel grows
The 2015 edition of the Register s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa included an optional gravel loop for the first time. A modest 15 miles, it became a regular part of the ride as the popularity of gravel riding grew.
Now, for 2021 with veteran pro gravel race director Dieter Drake as ride director the gravel segment is taking a more serious turn. The 70-mile route includes 50 off-pavement miles during the Fort Dodge to Iowa Falls day of the ride, July 27.
William McHenry Keyser
After struggling with aggressive pneumonia and complications from lifelong diabetes, William McHenry Keyser died peacefully on December 15 with his wife, Virginia, by his side near their new home in Lake Wales, Fla.
Mac was born on August 2, 1952, in New Bedford, Mass., near Marion, a treasured place where he spent time every summer with his family. The son of R. Brent Keyser and Helen Angier Keyser, Mac spent his youngest years in his father’s native Baltimore. He attended the Gilman School and the Harvey School and later graduated from Middlesex School, where he was known as a hardworking student and a steady competitor in sports, including soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse. He graduated from New England College in New Hampshire, majoring in business. While attending NEC, his love of music and skiing led to his moonlighting as a disc jockey at the local radio station and working on the ski patrol at nearby Pat’s