Saturday, June 27, 2026

Ride For Jacob: Setting A Date

Things are getting on now and I feel it is time to start planning for my "Ride For Jacob". This is a gravel ride I'm doing this Summer in honor of my son, Jacob Stevenson who died suddenly of unknown causes on August 2nd, 2025. 

Last year I did a ride from Waterloo, Iowa through Janesville, Shell Rock, and then New Hartford before returning to Waterloo via Cedar Falls. 

I plan on doing the same route this Summer. It's a fairly easy route. No drastic climbing, nothing technical about it. Just a fun ride in the country. 

Here's what I am thinking now. My first choice is July 25th, which is a day after what would have been Jacob's birthday this year. My other choice is August 8th, also a Saturday. If I can get a volunteer to take my hours on either of those dates I will write it down in pen as the date. My preference is the July date. 

IF you want to join me, you can. This is not an "event", but if people show up, I will plan on riding a no-drop group ride with them. There will be a GPS file of the route available soon. Time will likely be around 8:00am for a start. The route when I rode it last year was 67 miles. I'd expect that, or near to that, for a total. 

I may start this ride in Cedar Falls, and if I do it will definitely be shorter for anyone joining me. I'm riding from my house so I'll have more miles, at least ten more. 

So, that's all I have for now.I just wanted to get this out there so if anyone wants to put this on their radar as a possible ride opportunity they can do that. I'll have more fine details here and on my alternate blog site for this ride HERE.

Stay tuned for more soon....  

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