On this episode AP and Murph caught up with Jason Sumner from the Ride the Rockies team who is a long time cyclist and a Colorado Native living in Crested Butte. He is a journalist and has authored the book: 75 Classic Rides Colorado. Ride the Rockies, a multi day bicycle tour that explores communities in Colorado, has many similarities to RAGBRAI and has the history to prove it. Back in 1985, Claire Martin, a Denver Post reporter, came to Iowa to ride RAGBRAI and was hooked. She went back to Colorado and pitched the idea to the Denver Post. A year later, Ride the Rockies was born! Jason is going to tell us more about Ride the Rockies. To learn more, go to

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How many RAGBRAIs have you ridden? 5? 10? 20? Coreen Frasier has completed over 30! Take a listen to this inspiring re-broadcast from Episode 155. Coreen, a former bike racer, and a cancer survivor, has great stories from the road, a shower hack, and more from three decades of cycling across Iowa.

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Coach David Ertl, certified level 1 cycling coach through USA Cycling is on today. Coach Ertl has been coaching for over 20 years! Each year he provides RAGBRAI riders with a training plan as well as tips to make your ride more enjoyable. And all of it is free! A few tips from Coach Ertl worth highlighting:

Hills: don’t avoid them when training!

Water: drink more than you think you need

Food: don’t stuff yourself!

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This week AP and Murph are going to dig into each of the 8 overnight towns on the RAGBRAI route and offer up some highlights of what we can look forward to when we bike across Iowa in July, 2022. The overnight towns for RAGBRAI XLIX are: Sergeant Bluff, Ida Grove, Pocahontas, Emmetsburg, Mason City, Charles City, West Union and Lansing.

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Did you know back in the early years of RAGBRAI, riding a 100 mile day was part of the planned route each year? This year to honor our founding fathers, John Karras and Donald Kaul, we are going back to the roots they created almost 50 years ago. So if you are riding RAGBRAI in 2022, you will get to do a century ride! Sound impossible? It is not! On today’s episode, enjoy a Parrott Talk where AP will provide you with some facts and some inspiration to help you get ready to tackle a RAGBRAI century day. A century for Karras!! Andrea also dug deep into the newspaper archives and found an article John Karras wrote back in 1974. He answers questions from riders who were getting ready to do their second RAGBRAI, which was called SAGBRAI that year.

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A Bonus Episode This Week!

The RAGBRAI route has been announced and this past Saturday, the morning after the route party, Murph fired up the portable recorder and took a walk around the Iowa Bike Expo to talk with some of the vendors as well as each of the 2022 overnight towns. She was also able to spend a few minutes with Matt Phippen, RAGBRAI director of operations. Please forgive the sound quality, the Bike Expo was full of excitement and noise!

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On the show today is Brian O’Leary who is the executive director for The Dream Team. The Dream Team is a five month program that partners youth with adult mentors in the Des Moines area to provide a unique opportunity to build relationships, achieve personal growth, and learn life skills. The program culminates with a week long bicycle ride across Iowa and the emotional experience of riding from the Missouri to the Mississippi River. Brian is going to tell us more about the Dream Team, who will be celebrating their 25th year anniversary this year! You can listen to last year's podcast about The Dream Team here: https://soundcloud.com/justgobike/episode-169-brian-oleary-and-the-dream-team-host-murphology

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Meet Matt Phippen on the podcast today. This Iowa native and longtime friend of RAGBRAI, has been hired as the new director of operations. It is obvious Phippen is passionate about continuing the legacy of RAGBRAI, and showcasing the great state of Iowa. As the director of operations Phippen will oversee the day-to-day logistics of RAGBRAI including route planning and logistics, town planning, and partner relationships with city, state and county officials, law enforcement, and medical personnel. On this episode AP and Murph sit down with Matt, to learn more about him, his family, and his plan for 2022 and RAGBRAI’s to come. Welcome to the RAGBRAI family Phipp! Have a topic for a future episode? Message us at [email protected].

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Did you know a Facebook group exists just for people doing RAGBRAI for the first time? It’s called RAGBRAI Newbies and on the show today is Anna Abrams, the founder of the group, to talk about riding across Iowa for the first time. She wanted to feel more connected with other new riders and decided a Facebook group could provide a place for newbies to voice concerns, worries and questions, knowing other newbies will be facing the same thoughts. This private group, which is not directly associated with RAGBRAI, is a place where riders can ask about any question they may have about the ride, or preparing for the ride. These questions become great subjects of conversation and support that help the entire group. Group members are friendly and helpful and the community helps newbies feel connected. Anna even hosted a Newbies meet-up last year on the first day of RAGBRAI that was well attended. Anna will be coming back for her second RAGBRAI in 2022 and she is so excited to continue to share what she learned last year, and to provide a resource for this year’s round of newbies! Have a topic for a future episode? Message us at [email protected].

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This week Murph and AP respond to listeners requests for more RAGBRAI Q & A. Topics on this episode include: January Expo vs July Expo, how to get home after RAGBRAI, shipping your bike to and from the ride, transferring credentials, and more…

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