RUSA Awards, Summer 2021

[Spencer Klaassen]

RUSA Awards, Summer 2021

R-12: 

Rodney Geisert (2) 

Spencer Klaassen

Paul Toigo

American Explorer Award:

Ron Alexander - starting over and already up to 4

Mike & Nancy Myers - starting over and up to 3

Greg Pottorff - 10

Karen Winterhalter - 10

The above was in the latest American Randonneur, but I am aware of a couple other awards that will be in the next edition:

1. Ron Alexander earned the Ultra-P-12 Award

2.  Joe Edwards earned his 6th R-12 (I was riding with him) on Saturday.  

Looking towards the future:

September 11th is the 100th Anniversary of the BRM.  They will be having a special medal for doing a ride that day.  

BRM 100yr Medal.png

I am running this ride out of the Nebraska region.  Right now (don't book a hotel yet), we are planning on running a route that Joe Edwards designed:  Missouri River 200 K out of Glenwood, IA.  It is a three state 200 K that I have ridden as a permanent.  Personally, I think it is a nice route and has nice logistics at the start and finish.  Mark your calendar and pray it isn't a scorcher like today or it has a killer north wind.

Ride lots,

Spencer

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"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.  Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." - Ernest Hemingway