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Cameraderie. The physical challenge. Tourism. The food — and beer. People give many reasons for signing up to pedal the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. But this year, there's a new one: the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants include doctors and nurses who worked on the harrowing front lines at hospitals; people honoring cycling friends lost to the disease; and families looking for a way to reunite and enjoy one another's company after a long, forced separation. Here's what they told the Des Moines Register about their reasons for joining the more than 15,000 fellow ri...
March 3, 2021 Sheldon, Iowa — Sheldon’s Iowa’s Ride Committee has made the decision to not be an overnight host for the ride which, at least at this point, is scheduled for July 18th through 24th. The inaugural edition of the cross-state bicycle ride, Iowa’s Ride 2020, was forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers had announced as early as Spring 2020 that the ride would take place this year. Since that time, some things have changed. According to Iowa’s Ride Sheldon Chairperson Heidi Brown, at this time there is still a great deal of uncertainty surrounding w...