I dipped my front wheel in the Mississippi River. I am a Ragbrai
virgin no more.
471 miles. 7 days. Not too bad for a fat old geeky guy, huh?
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Ray's Blog about his cross-Iowa bicycle trip.
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- Follow-Up (1)
- The End
- I'm taking the river back with me
- Isn't this where we started?
- What? Me funny?
- 450 miles down...
- Final Iowa breakfast
- Chocolate chip cookie lady
- Sunrise over a farm house
- Last sunrise in Iowa
- Hey she asked me to take the pic!
- Bikers are trashy folks
- Whupped
- The caboose
- Gyro guy
- It was pretty good corn
- This blog brought to you by ...
- Lots of stretching going on
- I liked their shirts.
- The crowd was chanting ...
- Ticket girl at the hardacre
- $5 for movie previews
- I'm upgrading to a bigger bike
- Tipton, Iowa
- The homliest guy in Iowa (except for me, of course)
- The only rude person I've run across
- Mr. Pork Chop
- The Power Thingy
- The Highest Hill
- The Super Crew
- The best damned breakfast in Iowa
- Gwen's pimp
- If it's 900am it must be Miller Time
- One Tired Puppy
- Entertainer Dude Part 2
- Entertainer Dude
- One Tired Biker
- Key Lime Pie
- Corn Fed Iowa Blondes
- Walking Tacos
- The bicycling nuns
- This is Ralph
- Holly from the Des Moines Register
- Belle Plains, Iowa
- Sex with a pig
- Gonna be an interesting day
- Long day
- I've been nominated to ride ...
- After eating the pig
- The guy who gave me the not do good massage
- If you've ever been to NYC
- Good chops
- Outside showers
- The little pig I'm holding? (see pic below)
- 1 million calories
- That's some big ass tires
- A $260,000 bike rack
- Greeters
- Got to meet a celebrity
- 50 miles
- Cold neck wraps
- Albion Iowa
- He squealed a little more ...
- This sign was on the booth
- Roses and goofy fat geeks
- Roses R Us
- Rose capital of iowa
- Pizza
- Those descriptive iowans
- Some things just defy explanation
- The first 4 person tandem
- Toledo iowa
- Accident
- The least attractive ISU coeds
- Ryan the ISU electrical engineering major
- The tacos Ryan made
- Ames IA
- Any duo ...
- As opposed ...
- When you absolutely ..
- Purty water
- Iowa state university
- Some random fat geeky guy
- Iowa state univ
- I know what you're thinking
- ... It was her back
- Not as many as blondie ...
- Ya know I'm starting to get a little paranoid
- Fair fare
- Jefferson IA statue of Lincoln
- Ogden IA
- Trains
- Whining 101
- Maybe The Office ...
- Cute dumbasses
- Iowans for Obama
- More coon road kill
- You'll be happy to know ...
- Monday's ride
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15 comments:
Congratulations big guy! I knew you could! Superman would even be proud.
;)
Love ya, Judy
Ray,
Way to go!!! Count yourself as an athlete not a geek!!! T
I send my congratulations.
Hey! An athlegeek! Good going!
C
Well done Mr. Owens! I always enjoy your writing (since the AOL virus alert!) Maybe this fat old banker will join you next year! Thanks for taking us along on your ride. --dbp
Thank you for allowing us to "ride" along with you. I am so darn proud of you I could S#$@, Um, I mean... I could hug you.
Ann
Congrats, Ray! I am proud of you for being able to dip your front wheel in the river. It's amazing what one can achieve when he puts his mind into it. I wish I could have been at the finish line this morning to hug you.
Now stop eating junk food to keep that sexy body of yours lean. You look damn good :-)
Won't you feel funny not sleeping in a tent next to a railroad track with a bunch of snoring people to wake up a 5:00AM to climb on your bike? (How's that for a run on sentence??) Hope you are planning to sleep in and rest. I am very thrilled for you. T
Yay Ray! I'm so proud of you! I'm almost inspired to get up off my lazy rear and start exercising! (But please don't hold your breath in anticipation...LOL)
congratulations daddy! good for you!
i'm going to miss the blog, i really enjoyed reading it, i felt like i was there with you! get some rest you deserve it! love you
Ray!
Man, I'm proud of you. I knew you'd finish it, since you ain't the guy that gives up that quick.
I have to tell you that I loved some of the latest pics with you in them, smiling and looking happy. Seeing that makes me happy, too.
I missed you by 15 minutes; maybe next year.
Another Rider (19th year)
I remember you blogging about getting on that bike a year or so ago and not being able to make it more than a few blocks. DAMN you are inspiring. I've recently started walking and I can jog a whole 16th of a mile. Maybe in a year or two I'll be able to do a lot more.
((((((((((hugs))))))))))
Congratulations, Ray! What an amazing experience that was, and it's something you can always look back on and say "I did it". Fantastic! Big hugs to you.
A little late but I wanted to add my congratulations!!!!
(If you ever check back :) )
Way to go, darlin', you are a stud!
--Susan W.
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