Munson: First-timer delights in magic of ride across Iowa
Davenport, Ia. Jack St. Peters sailed past me Saturday morning as we pedaled our bicycles through the outskirts of Davenport in the final miles of RAGBRAI XXXIX.
"I can smell the river - it's here," he shouted over his shoulder.
St. Peters, 69, of Spencer, has about 30 years on me - but also more than 2,000 training miles this year. By Saturday I was comfortable rating a slowpoke on the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. Last week marked St. Peters' 11th RAGBRAI, while it was only my first.
I had met St. Peters, his lean body topped by a tie-dye skullcap, sipping coffee before 8:30 a.m. in the city park in Durant. The retired J.C. Penney executive and two of his former work buddies had pulled out of Coralville by 5:15 a.m.
"It's like a family with one mission - to get across the state," he mused on the ride's peculiar magic.
Yes, the shared pain and struggle is part of what unites the RAGBRAI horde from around the globe. If a committee of fretting tourism professionals tried to orchestrate a completely inoffensive, effortless ride in the style of a theme park, this wouldn't be half as much fun.
RAGBRAI mirrors the human condition: Oh, how we love to grouse about the trouble we've pedaled ourselves into - preferably over a cold beer in the next overnight town.
Riders sign up for this epic journey for all sorts of reasons - to commemorate or prove something, reunite as friends or family, raise money for a cause or promote a new scheme.
Its cumulative history has stretched a total of 18,265 miles between the rivers since its inauspicious launch in 1973 by Register columnists and co-founders John Karras and Donald Kaul.
In reality, there have been 305,650 different RAGBRAIs - a unique experience for each bicyclist who ends the week too sore to sit, yet too tired to stand.
Then there's the element of surprise: You never know when a 200-foot water slide will materialize along the rural Iowa roadside, or a pond swing, or the world's largest welded bicycle.
Even the Iowa State Patrol gets the chance to blare loud rock music from its cruisers and exchange friendly greetings all day with bicyclists instead of pulling sheepish drivers to the side of the road.
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