RAGBRAI

While we will be announcing the route for RAGBRAI XXXVIII on Saturday night while one RAGBRAIer will be on a different stage that evening in Las Vegas. 

Anne Michael Langguth, a 22-year old from Iowa City, is competing for the title of Miss America 2010.

Anne Michael and her dad, Brad, rode all of RAGBRAI last year on a tandem.  You might have passed, or have been passed, by a tandem with a young woman with a tiara atop her bike helmet.  She also performed in several of the overnight towns as she plays a mean violin!  (She has even played on-stage with the Charlie Daniels Band) She will play that violin during the talent portions of the Miss America pageant.

Anne graduated from Harvard one month before RAGBRAI and plans to attend the University of Iowa medical school.

How many Miss America contestants do you think were fueled by Tender Tom’s Turkey?  (pictured at right with Leroy from Tender Tom’s).   To see Anne Michael’s slideshow from RAGBRAI 2009, visit the Miss Iowa website.

Good luck Anne Michael!  Your fellow RAGBRAI riders are pulling for you!