Comments on: RAGBRAI or Bust http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/ A family mashed up Thu, 06 May 2010 01:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: What is RAGBRAI? - Reynolds Life and Times http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 What is RAGBRAI? - Reynolds Life and Times Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:46:40 +0000 http://www.ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/#comment-1686 [...] It’s buses and buses and buses of people. It’s the craziest costumes you will hopefully ever see. It’s bike baptisms and Catholic worship. It’s trailers of Iowa corn on a stick, it’s having your picture made with a chicken. It’s Lance Armstrong struggling, it’s feisty grandmas to greet you in their town. It’s innovative bikes and innovative people. It’s mixing and mingling. It’s independence and teamwork. It’s getting down the road and not looking back. It’s a make shift water slide or it’s a make shift slip in slide, but not both. It’s time with friends, time alone, and time with old guys who get fat in winter. It is tent camps, and the towns you go through along the way. It’s a special memory you can’t forget. And, you are invited. Here is even a RAGBRAI for Dummies to get you started. Get a bike and let’s go! [...] [...] It’s buses and buses and buses of people. It’s the craziest costumes you will hopefully ever see. It’s bike baptisms and Catholic worship. It’s trailers of Iowa corn on a stick, it’s having your picture made with a chicken. It’s Lance Armstrong struggling, it’s feisty grandmas to greet you in their town. It’s innovative bikes and innovative people. It’s mixing and mingling. It’s independence and teamwork. It’s getting down the road and not looking back. It’s a make shift water slide or it’s a make shift slip in slide, but not both. It’s time with friends, time alone, and time with old guys who get fat in winter. It is tent camps, and the towns you go through along the way. It’s a special memory you can’t forget. And, you are invited. Here is even a RAGBRAI for Dummies to get you started. Get a bike and let’s go! [...]

]]> By: David Monroe http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-979 David Monroe Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:57:31 +0000 http://www.ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/#comment-979 Im in! Terra and i went out to whiterock to ride a few miles the other night and it brought up some fun memories of training for RAGBRAI back in 2003. What a blast that was! We really need to committ to this so that we can get the motivation to start training!! Im in! Terra and i went out to whiterock to ride a few miles the other night and it brought up some fun memories of training for RAGBRAI back in 2003. What a blast that was! We really need to committ to this so that we can get the motivation to start training!!

]]> By: Brett http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Brett Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:31:15 +0000 http://www.ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/#comment-232 I'm not gonna argue, but you know where I am. I’m not gonna argue, but you know where I am.

]]> By: Jason http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Jason Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:21:42 +0000 http://www.ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/#comment-219 Sweet Brett, I am glad you are committing to go! As you know, results follow goals and not the opposite... unless of course you are in an iterative process... in which case going on RAGBRAI will be even easier for you since you will have met so many smaller goals in between. Either way, you are in! Can't wait to have that time with you and the wife. You won't believe how much fun it actually is. Every 7-12 miles there is a town that is throwing a festival of some sort... inevitably with the oddest foods. Check <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ihpva.org/pipermail/hpv/Week-of-Mon-20040726/034896.html">this dudes writeup on the food</a> from RAGBRAI 2004 for example. Now, are there any other <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fatpastors.com/about/">fat pastors</a> over <a rel="nofollow" href="http://church-hype.typepad.com/">here</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tillwehavefaces.org/">here</a> who want to join up on this challenge and get more healthy? Sweet Brett, I am glad you are committing to go! As you know, results follow goals and not the opposite… unless of course you are in an iterative process… in which case going on RAGBRAI will be even easier for you since you will have met so many smaller goals in between. Either way, you are in! Can’t wait to have that time with you and the wife. You won’t believe how much fun it actually is. Every 7-12 miles there is a town that is throwing a festival of some sort… inevitably with the oddest foods. Check this dudes writeup on the food from RAGBRAI 2004 for example.

Now, are there any other fat pastors over here or here who want to join up on this challenge and get more healthy?

]]> By: Brett http://ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Brett Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:31:03 +0000 http://www.ashleyandjason.com/wordpress/2007/04/17/ragbrai-or-bust/#comment-216 get 'em brother! I am really proud of you for taking up this goal again. Let's see where I am on my riding schedule by next fall and see if that might be something to join you in. I am feeling hopeful today because as of two weeks ago I have set off on my own goal of eating healthier and exercising at least every other day. Walked/jogged for twenty minutes this morning with another 10 minutes of sit-ups, push-ups, and stretching. Still the fattest I have ever been, but with my metabolism, should be far from here by next week! get ‘em brother! I am really proud of you for taking up this goal again. Let’s see where I am on my riding schedule by next fall and see if that might be something to join you in. I am feeling hopeful today because as of two weeks ago I have set off on my own goal of eating healthier and exercising at least every other day. Walked/jogged for twenty minutes this morning with another 10 minutes of sit-ups, push-ups, and stretching. Still the fattest I have ever been, but with my metabolism, should be far from here by next week!

]]>