As soon as envisioned as a brand new tackle the venerable RAGBRAI, Iowa’s Journey has gone from a weeklong bike experience throughout the state to a protracted weekend round Eldora.

Organizers introduced on Fb on Tuesday that the experience is now scheduled for July 16-18.

“Iowa’s Journey Weekender will now be held in Eldora with tenting and enjoyable nights on Friday and Saturday (July 16-17). There might be a 40 to 50 mile designated route on Saturday and a number of other driving choices to be completed on Friday and Sunday, ”the advert says. “Along with horseback driving, calm down whereas floating in a tube on the Iowa River and funky off on the metropolis pool positioned in the primary tenting space of ​​Eldora Metropolis Park.”

In October 2019, TJ Juskiewicz, longtime director of the Register’s annual grand bike tour in Iowa, fell out with the Des Moines Register. He introduced that he was forming his personal 2020 summer season race, which was in the end resulting from go east-to-west for 416 miles by Iowa.

However the coronavirus pandemic put an finish to that – because it did for all of RAGBRAI 2020 as nicely.

RAGBRAI earlier introduced {that a} west-to-east, river-to-river bike experience is again July 25-31 this 12 months.

In its announcement Tuesday, Iowa’s Journey stated a number of of the colleges and communities it contacted for the 2021 route had been “nonetheless uncomfortable opening up the required in a single day tenting amenities all through. subsequent summer season ”.

Final 12 months, organizers stated they’d refund a lot of the registration charges cyclists paid for the canceled experience. On Tuesday, they stated that if the runners had registered for the 2020 race, there can be no registration charge for this 12 months’s occasion.

“In case you have associates who now want to register, it is nonetheless free admission, however we encourage them to donate to Rotary Eldora,” they wrote.

Juskiewicz introduced on Fb final 12 months that he was leaving Iowa to turn out to be govt director of a biking occasion in Tucson, Arizona.