Updates from John Karras, RAGBRAI Co-Founder... With RAGBRAI XL (that’s 40, to you non-Roman-numeraly hip dudes) looming ever closer, an unwanted fact keeps bonking around in the back of my mind: That fact is that I am one year younger than Clarence Pickard was in 1973, when Donald Kaul and I launched this general silliness.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Meet Bill Wertzberger of Cloverdale, Calif., where he is an assistant wine maker for Teldeschi. His claim: I was the first person to start and last to finish the first RAGBRAI in 1973.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
We wish the happiest of birthdays to RAGBRAI co-founder, John Karras. Karras, along with Donald Kaul, founded the ride that is known today as RAGBRAI. John still rides RAGBRAI each summer and plans to ride the 38th RAGBRAI as an octogenarian.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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