A normal RAGBRAI : Masks won t be required in 2021 return of annual bike ride across Iowa Philip Joens, Des Moines Register
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With about half of Iowa s, and the country s, population vaccinated against COVID-19, the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa next month will look and feel much like those held over the 47 years before the cancellation of the 2020 ride, organizers say.
RAGBRAI officials, who announced in December that the ride would return July 25-31, initially planned to require masks and to impose safe social distance requirements in vendor lines and at off-bike events. They also said they might consider staggered starts for riders, if warranted, to cut down on crowding; COVID-19 testing or proof of vaccination; and health screenings.
RAGBRAI ride inspectors check the route through Jones County
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CHEROKEE Foreshadowing a moment anticipated for nearly two years, about 30 riders in pedaled toward the morning sun, departing Le Mars in far northwest Iowa on Sunday for the first leg in a weeklong ride.
Twenty-three months after the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa last set off on its cross-state trek, it was the start of the annual RAGBRAI pre-ride, a journey that gives the organizers the chance to inspect the route up-close and meet with representatives of the towns through which it will pass.
Just seven weeks from now, 12,000 riders are expected to follow in their tire tracks, marking the return of RAGBRAI after a pandemic-induced cancellation in 2020 the first time the ride had been called off since its beginning in 1973.