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RAGBRAI began in 1973 when Des Moines Register feature writers John Karras and Donald Kaul decided to go on a bicycle ride across Iowa. Both men were avid cyclists. Karras challenged Kaul to do the ride and write articles about what he experienced. Kaul agreed to do it, but only if Karras also did the ride.
By the middle of my first Ragbrai (1983), my lips were chapped beyond the ability of all the Chapstick and Vaseline in the upper midwest to rescue them. By the time I came back three years later, the friendliness of Iowans had faded to a vague memory and I had forgotten how beautiful the countryside was.