{"id":492834,"date":"2026-02-22T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:20:07","slug":"davenport-cycling-club-prepares-rookies-for-ragbrai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492834\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenport cycling club prepares rookies for RAGBRAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; DAVENPORT, Iowa \u2014 The Quad Cities Bicycle Club hosted a RAGBRAI for Rookies seminar at the Davenport Public Library on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The free public event offered first-time RAGBRAI riders advice on safety, training and tips for completing the ride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tina Reyes, president of the Quad Cities Bicycle Club, said the seminar covered the history of RAGBRAI, daily mileage expectations, and what to pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSome of the things they are learning is just a little bit of the history of RAGBRAI \u2014 you know it\u2019s been around since 1973 \u2014 and then we step them into what they can expect on a given day, the mileage, also what to pack,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cSome of the point is we have a lot of experience to help a newer person throughout all the steps. I know personally, my first RAGBRAI was very overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 53rd RAGBRAI is scheduled to run July 18\u201325, covering 391.4 miles and 16,027 feet of climb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) &#8211; DAVENPORT, Iowa \u2014 The Quad Cities Bicycle Club hosted a RAGBRAI for Rookies seminar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[197847,49,48,197845,635,197846,5063,197844,18687,82,11327,197848],"class_list":["post-492834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-biking-safety","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycle-club","tag-cycling","tag-davenport-iowa","tag-quad-cities","tag-ragbrai","tag-rookies","tag-sports","tag-tips","tag-what-should-i-expect-from-ragbrai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}