RAGBRAI Week Three Training

Date	Destination/Comment (round trip unless otherwise noted)	Distance
May 25	W. Seattle/Bainbridge Island (one way; stayed night in Winslow)	25 miles
May 26	Bainbridge Island/W. Seattle (1-way) Mathews Beach/Woodinville	28 miles
May 27	Mt. Vernon/La Conner Loop	29 miles
May 29	W. Seattle Hill Loop	16 miles
May 30	Mathews Beach/Redmond	33 miles
May 31	W. Seattle/Vashon Island	31 miles

RAGBRAI Week Two Training

Date	Destination/Comment (round trip unless otherwise noted)	Distance
May 18	Mathews Beach/past Ste Michelle	30 miles
May 19	Ballard/Log Boom (post ride Happy Hour libation at Hale's Brewery	29 miles
May 23	Mathews Beach/Redmond	33 miles
May 24	W. Seattle/Kent	35 miles

RAGBRAI Week One Training

Date	Destination/Comment (round trip unless otherwise noted)	Distance
May 11	Mathews Beach/Gas Works Park	15 miles
May 12	Mathews Beach/Woodinville	21 miles
May 14	Mathews Beach/Woodinville	21 miles
May 15	Fort Dent/Auburn	25 miles
May 17	West Seattle/Fort Dent	27 miles

Summer 2008 Plans

Since our return from Australia and Antarctica, we've been tending to personal matters and haven't done any significant travel. We are actively trying to sell our current boat and are not planning on cruising on it this Spring or Summer.

The one thing on the docket, though, is riding our bicycles in RAGBRAI. This 7-day ride across Iowa is the oldest and largest cross-state bicycle rides. This year it will have about 8500 riders moving en masse across the state.

The route, which changes every year, is 471 miles and, shockingly from our perspective, 22,500 feet of elevation. Being a native "left-coaster", I assumed that between the Rockies  and the Appalachians was nothing but flat. Where did those hills in Iowa come from???

Its time to start training and get some serious "seat" time.