This is Iowa, home to great numbers of bicycles, gravel roads and cold days, creating just the right challenges for the spring renegade sport of gravel racing.
Bicyclists gathered at a country tap on a late March Sunday. There’s a shocker.
But what was surprising to a group of plainclothes middle-age women also gathered at the Cumming Tap (for fun, their potluck snacks laid out in Tupperware on the bar), was that anyone would think it amusing to mount a bicycle and race 45 miles on gravel roads through brisk 20-degree air.
They should have known … More