We are full!

If you sent in a card you should be on the rider list on the tab to the right.

I would expect there are probably a few more cards trickling in and we will take those riders.

We do expect some riders to drop as we realize a lot can happen in the next 3 months.  So if you want to get on the waiting list drop me an email.

jim@dirtylemming.com

Thanks,

Jim

Rider List Updated 4/21

See side bar tab.

If you sent in a postcard and don't see your name, let me know.  A few did end up in the neighbor's mailbox.   We're not used to this volume of mail around here.   :-)

Jim@dirtylemming.com

Ragnarök 105 - "Avoided getting crushed by the Rök"

Ed and I rode the Ragnarök 105 on Saturday April 14th.   After failing to win the entry lottery for 3 years I wasn't going to "DNS" and get "banned for life".  The organizers do a good job of making it clear that this is not going to be an easy ride, so enter at your own risk.  

Fortunately it really was the best weather of the week.   Light snow, some sleet, temps starting at 28, rising to 42, less than 40 at the finish.    

Most notable aspect of the rides was the three really nasty climbs on minimum maintenance roads that were drag-a-bike.   Imagine 6 inches of slushy snow clogging up your brakes making it tough to even push the bike.   On one hike that was nearly 500 feet of vertical for 1.1 miles we spent nearly 30 minutes pushing/dragging our bikes up the hill.     

Also some ice, horse trails, rocks, mud, pretty much all the nasty conditions you can think of.

Wish I had time to take some pictures.   Normally I try to snap a few pictures but we were fighting to stay ahead of the "Cutoff Reaper" all day. I really wasn't sure I was going to make the cutoff until we got to about 8 miles to go.  At that point I realized we didn't have anymore hikes so it was just a matter of riding in.  

Hopefully someone took some pictures and will post them on the Ragnarök website.  There was a baby snowman half way up one of the climbs hikes that really made my day.  Clearly someone had more energy than I did if they could stop and make a snowman.   Thanks for the inspiration!

I think this would be a really nice ride in the fall or spring (late spring, like June).

Like I said, we stayed just ahead of the cut off times all day and finished with 25 minutes to spare.   

Shout out to Larry from Eau Claire who rode almost the whole day with us and brought some much needed humor to the situation.  He also bought us a beer at the local brew pub afterwards as we celebrated "Crushing the Rök".  Hopefully he will join us on July 20th.

Profile below:   My GPS said 8800 feet of vertical on the day.  That needle peak at 87 miles was the hike I spoke of above.  

On the ride home, Ed and I decided that the Ragnarök 105 is now an the official automatic qualifier for the Dirty Lemming.


I guarantee that the Dirty Lemming ride will be warmer, and at a much more relaxed pace.  


Jim

Filling Fast

Registration has been open a week 10 days and the post cards are piling up.   Nice to see some new riders along with some of the "old" veterans.   

Questions? jim@dirtylemming.com

Rider list (updated 4/10/13)

Lemmettes

Deb Lind

Karen Schwoerer

Rebekah Gordon

Tiffany Foley

Lemmings

Alex Katkov

Bob Mueller

Bryce Rasmussen

Chris Chavie

Chuck Barden

Cole Rogers

Craig Gustafson

Daven Kokkila

Dirk Val Matre

Doug Krone

Ed Matthiesen

Galen Murray

Garry Glubka

Greg Fields

James Foley

Jason Lajon

Jeff Mandel

Jim Smith

Joe Bischoff

Joe Pahr

John Ostmoe

Mark Seaburg

Michael McElhinney

Patrick Kinney

Pork Chop

Smokanson

Steve Wachholtz

Tim Kinney

Wayne Bishop

Wayne Carlson

Moved up one day to Saturday July 20th.

See updated post below.

Questions?   jim@dirtylemming.com

We're back....

Dirty Lemming - Troika

We had a few complaints last year about the mild weather so we moved the ride to the day that is on average the hottest day of the year.

Note we are moving the date to Saturday July 20th.   There is a festival called Rails to Trails and there are a couple fun events that riders could stick around for (after the post ride party), BBQ, Street Dance, ....

Details to follow:

Date:  Sunday July 21, 2013  Saturday July 20, 2013
Time: 7AM
Road surface: Deep, loose, gravel.  Occasional washboard.
Distance: 100 miles, 100 kilometers
Location: Watertown, MN
Weather: Gale force winds, sweltering heat, unbearable humidity
Trophies:  More and bigger
Party: Better beer and tastier brats (when you finish)
Rider limit: 50 or so would be nice.

We'll do the post card thing again starting April 1st and run until we fill the roster because I really like getting mail.

Thanks and Results

Special thanks to Suzanne, Becky, and Race Director Mark for the cookies/bananas at the church and the watermelon/bananas in Biscay.   That was nice.   


Wish you guys had ate a few more brats and drank a few more beers.


Again, there were a couple route variations this year.   It was such a nice day, who could blame Doug for wanting to ride 126 miles or the Mayor and Marty for wanting to ride 108.


We didn't get all the times so we took a few guesses based on finish order recollections from the riders at the Survivor Party.    This was after a beer or two so if we messed something up, let me know.

Rider	Age	Distance	Finish
Tim Lupfer	30	103	6:46
Bryce Rasmussan	24	103	6:46:00
Paul Wyatt	60	103	7:18
John Barten	61	103	7:50
Steve Schoo	49	103	7:50:00
Mark Fontaine	54	103	7:50:01
Wayne Bishop	45	103	7:50:03
Gary Lindberg	48	103	8:05
Bob Mueller	51	103	8:10
Doug Krone	55	103	8:28
Steve Gleason	48	103	8:28
Greg Fields	50	103	8:29
Jim Smith	53	103	8:31
Craig Gustafson	50	103	8:31:01
Ed A. Matthiesen	57	103	8:34
Jeff Loso	43	103	8:34
Steve Porvaznk	53	103	9:00
Marty Martens	40	103	9:00
John Carline	45	103	9:20
Charles Wild	35	85	8:00
Dave Bucholz	48	63	4:08:17
Pete Morey	43	63	4:08:17
John Hokanson	57	63	4:48
Chuck Barden	56	63	4:48
John Matthiesen	23	20	1:45