Two days to get your card postmarked!

Just two days to get your card postmarked so you can get in the lottery.

I'll probably wait until January 7th or so to actually do the lottery (assuming we get over 150 cards) just to make sure we don't miss any one.

At this time, I won't be accepting any late cards or email grovels this year. I tried to accomodate as many folks as possible last year and (mainly due to my own bad organizational skills) it became a headache keeping things straight. Depending on how the last bit goes maybe I'll come up with something, but not a given.

Have a great rest of the year 2016 and a boffo start to 2017!

List of Lottery Entrants

**Update** The final list of entrants... deciding if I bother with the lottery pomp and circumstance or just let everyone in. I know for a fact that 20-30 people will invariably dropout before the day... so we'll always end up below the 150

To those that sent in a card late. You'll get put on the waiting list and I'll pop you onto the roster as people drop off.

NOTE THAT THIS ISN'T THE OFFICIAL RACE ROSTER YET!

in alphabetical order of your last name:

Abel, Matthew

Anderson, Bruce

Anderson, Jon

Backman, Daniel

Bakker, Carl

Barr, Megan

Bell, Pete

Belz, Rob

Benton, Joel

Berhane, Hanah

Berkland, Sam

Birkemeier, Ryan

Braasch, Grant

Brown, Derek

Bushendorf, Jeff

Bushinski, Mark

Callas, Bill

Carey, Andrew

Carlton, Philip

Carroll, Paul

Cary, Neal (O)

Casey, Mike

Clark, James

Clausen, Ted

Condon, Cody

Cotter, Shawn

Cox, Ben

Cure, Bob

Curtis, Rick

Dana, Kevin

Davis, Kyle

Deckert, Steven

DeMars, Joe

Denis, Charles

Denis, Matt

Dingemans, Max

Donovan, Jack

Doom, Ben

Dorow, Linda

Dresler, Dennis

Earley, Ken

Egbers, John

Eikenberry, Nicole

Eising, Scott

Eklund, Lukas

El Medkouri, Mohammed

Elson, Brandt

Engen, Mark

Engen, Matt

Erickson, Thomas

Estes, Lynn (???)

Everstone, Hurl

Fetzer, Matt

Foster, Todd

Fournier, Maggy

Funke, Dan

Gaffke, Dustin

Greenwaldt, Tyler

Gruhn, Leah

Hamlin, Joe

Hathaway, Eric

Haye, Jeff

Hedin, Cory

Hest, Robert

Hey, Ben

Hippen, Scott

Hoffard, Timothy

Hoogendam, Ian

Hunter, Melissa

Johnson, Kirk

Karnopp, Roger

Karow, Eddie

Kern, Jon

Kies, Scott

Knox, Dave

Kueffer, Dan

Kueffer, Fred

Lalonde, Mark

Landreville, Michael

Larson, Mara

Lee, Mike

Lewis, Jared

Lewis, Tim

Lien, Brent

Lindberg, Gary

Loosen, Ted

Loye, Jon

Mailen, Sean

Malanaphy, Maury

Matalamaki, John

Mayer, Fred

McDaniel, Kent

Meiser, Joe

Meulebroeck, Scott

Mohr, Jere

Mosimann, Rob

Nederloe, Tryg

Nichols, Joel

Nickles, Ray

Nygård, Jonas

O'Neill, Jeff

Parenteau, Roger

Parsons, Charles

Peterson, David

Peterson, Erik

Peterson, Paul

Pettes, Jeff

Phernetton, Michael

Pletka, Bruce

Rambow, Meredith

Rasmussen, Bryce

Raygor, Trenton

Reitz, Andrew

Riley, Matt

Ringold, Tom

Ringuette, Jim

Roenfanz, Parker

Roeser, Josh "Pork Chop"

Rogers, Cole

Sauber, Larry

Schad, Charlie

Schlinz, Kyle

Schneider, Jay

Schneider, Joshua

Schulz, Thad

Seaburg, Mark

Seipp, Carrie

Sheedy, Patrick

Sheldrake, John

Shepherd, Bob

Shouse, Corey

Shupe, Jeff

Sobota, Kyle

Soltis, Steve

St. Pierre, Sam

Strachan, David

Stringfield, Ryan

Stuckman, Chris

Stunek, Kurt

Sundquist, Christian

Thornton, Jeremy

Thueringer, Frank

Tiede, Travis

Tobias, Sam

Tuma, Robert

Van Ryswyk, Jeremie

Venteicher, Lee

Ward-Packard, Ezra

Watchmaker, Todd

Watercott, Mike

Webb, Matt

Weeks, David

Weinzierl, Andy

Weisbrod, Heath

Wentz, Lindsay

Wentz, Nathan

Williams, Rob

Wilson, Drew

Wolf, Charles

Woll, Dan

Woods, Brian

Worley, T.C.

Yore, Steve

Zylstra, Ken

For sure waiting list:

Jungers, Jake

Lageson, Andy

Lemke, Nicholas

Mandel, Jeff

Perez, Jose

Strate, Chelsea

Vold, Sveta

The 2017 Registration Post

Hi all!

This will be mostly a copy/paste job since no actual details have changed to get into the lottery.

Here are the details, from now until December 31 (postmarked by):

1 ) Please send a STANDARD POSTCARD to:

Ragnarok 105 c/o
Isaac Giesen
428 Franklin St.
Red Wing, MN    55066

2) NOTE that I said STANDARD POSTCARD. This does not mean a randomly sized chunk of cardboard, or a slip of paper in an envelope. Go out to countless places and buy a postcard. We will be holding a random lottery style drawing and no one will get preferential treatment (outside of the previous winners or those who have been through all of the editions of the 'Rok. Goofy sized cards stack the deck one way or the other...

3) On the postcard, please LEGIBLY write out the following:

Your Name
Your Email Address
and the statement "I am responsible for myself"

I'll start a post that will list everyone who has gotten into the lottery. Don't be worried yet, I'll try and do it this weekend (work is crazy busy).

4) Black Friday is the first day that I'll "accept" cards, and you have until December 31 to have your card postmarked and on its way to Red Wing.

5) I'm not actually a total stickler for the rules, but we really do appreciate not getting random little bits of paper with names, oddly shaped chunks of cardboard, etc. It just makes things easier for us.

6) You must send in a card YOURSELF! If I see that the same person has sent in multiple cards for different folks, then those cards are going in the trash. There is a requirement to write out "I am responsible for myself" and it pretty much defeats the purpose of that if you can't even be bothered to send in your own card.

7) We will cap the roster at 150 riders. So there is a chance that the lottery will not be needed. If we have more than 150 cards, the drawing will take place a week or so after the new year. I will keep all those not pulled in the lottery on a waiting list. Last year EVERYONE on the waiting list got in (though some were very late notice so couldn't make it).

8) Previous winners still need to send in a card. You just won't go into the drawing (this goes for Men and Women)

9) I think that is it. Ask questions if you have any.

10) Happy Holidays!

2017 Ragnarok...

So... our little ride/race turns 10!

The plans as they sit right now:

When: April 1, 2017

Details: Pretty much same as always. Work, little kids and potential new houses mean that the free time to tweak the course is about zero. But that isn't really a bad thing anyways. I do have some feelers out about some private property less than minimum maintenance roads that I may be able to easily incorporate towards the end of the course... so maybe some new crap for y'all!

I'll post up registration lottery details in the next month.

Thanks!

Isaac

Some photos

Larry and Andrew took a few photos of the event... some are pretty solid!

Here is a link: Ragnarok 2016 photos

The Annual "Thanks" Post

I know I have posted on the facebook some quick thanks... I like to be a little more verbose as it is very true that the race would not happen without a bunch of people doing things essentially out of the kindness of their heart (because we probably are pretty close to the bottom of "sponsor" bang for the buck... actually promoting etc. is NOT my/our strongsuit.

So... here goes (in no particular order):

1) Rider/racers - Thanks for being fun to be around for a day! Also, it is appreciated that no one has resorted to physical violence as we hand out leg 3 notes when you know that "Heath's Hill" is coming up. Even if you haven't ridden the "Rok" before you have heard of it (generally). Note - thanks to those who donated to the race we didn't lose any money and should be able to guarantee 2 or 3 port-a-potties.

2) My family - Carly is awesome! Both in helping on the day of the race at the checkpoints and finish, and in letting be get away for hours at a time to do course recon, riding, etc. I couldn't do it if there was even a bit of hesitation. Thanks to the grandparents too for watching the kids all day!

3) Mississippi National Golf Links - The convenience and safety of the golf course (as opposed to bombing through town like olden days) is so awesome! I saw a handful of folks leaving from the clubhouse so hopefully the golf club was cool with our using the lot again. It helped that it was very cool and probably not really that big of a golf day... Finishing on with Lehrbach is part of the race... so moving the start/finish is not something that I would want to do.

4) Red Wing Brewery - It's a small place and can get packed pretty quick... but for my money it's the best pizza in town (I recommend the spicy italian but sub pepperoni for the roast beef), and there is a pretty good variety of beer too. (I'm no beer drinker so I'll leave that for others to determine). Norm and the whole crew are great folks and allowing us to set-up shop the night before makes things that much easier for us (and those that can get into Red Wing Friday) on the morning of the race.

5) Twin Six - Thanks again for bringing a bag of swag that we can lay out for racers to grab as they finish. NOTE - we suck at actually giving these out in a good manner that actually gets value for them... and they still bring stuff after years and years of doing so.

6) Trek Bikes - They brought down some sweet lights and hats and stuff... the same can be said as for Twin Six. Bringing stuff without the allure of a lot of publicity says a lot.

Last and very much not least ...

Thanks to Jake and Larry for helping out on the race day. Larry is always ready to help wherever it's needed, and to pore over lists at checkpoints until everything makes sense. Jake is the "social" one of the bunch, so having him available for the finish area is awesome. We couldn't do it without them. The fact that Jake made the flight back from Denver says a lot.

Next year would make for 10... I think we're a go at least right now. Pencil in April 1 or April 8 (depending on work schedules... I think it'll be April 1), 2017... I REAAAAALLY want to change the course, even a little to make old GPS files useless. But we'll see what happens.

Note - I went through all of the results that I could find. There are 3 riders who have done every Ragnarok... Brandt Elson, Heath Weisbrod and Eddie Karow.

Thanks again!

Ragnarok 2016 - 9th Edition - Results

I'll try and type up some thoughts and reaction to a fun day of gravel riding sometime this week. Thanks again for coming down to Red Wing!

Big congratulations to Drew for finally taking home the Rok after coming close in multiple previous editions (I hope I'm not spacing out)! Also big congrats to the Wilson family with their new little one that I saw at the checkpoints!

Megan Barr was the 1st Female finisher and totes home the big Rok! Great Job!

Note... starting time was 7:33 am

	Number	Name	Finish Time
1	502	Drew Wilson	1:34
2	561	Jesse LaLonde	1:36
3	503	Bryan Fosler	1:37
4	514	Samuel Elson	1:38
5	536	Ian Hoogendam	1:52
6	520	Charlie Schad	1:56
7	546	Ted Loosen	1:56
8	583	Sean Mailen	1:56
9	613	Philip Carlton	2:12
10	585	Joe Hamlin	2:18
11	604	Kyle Sobota	2:18
12	532	Dustin Gaffke	2:23
13	519	Ben Doom	2:24
14	535	Scott Hippen	2:26
15	574	Paul Carroll	2:28
16	570	Larry Sauber	2:32
17	518	Jon Kern	2:38
18	612	Jeff Shupe	2:39
19	602	David Pramann	2:40
20	525	David Bell	2:40
21	569	Mark Hartney	2:42
22	513	Brandt Elson	2:42
23	547	Sam St. Pierre	2:42
24	589	Darryl Shoemaker	2:50
25	608	Jason Stukel	2:56
26	572	Bruce Anderson	2:56
27	548	Ben Oney	2:57
28	533	Chris Schotz	3:02
29	591	Brent Kvittem	3:03
30	554	Jeff O'Neill	3:04
31	528	Parker Roenfranz	3:08
32	557	Hurl Everstone	3:10
33	576	Ryan Sportel	3:10
34	540	Todd Watchmaker	3:10
35	616	Charles Denis	3:12
36	615	Megan Barr (1st)	3:12
37	527	Carl Bakker	3:13
38	592	Ben Cox	3:14
39	565	Bill Callas	3:25
40	555	Steven Yore	3:25
41	573	Jonah Hudson-Erdman	3:25
42	610	Trenton Raygor	3:26
43	544	Joshua Schneider	3:28
44	531	Steve Soltis	3:31
45	566	Jeff Frane	3:31
46	567	Carl Newberg	3:33
47	530	Ted Clausen	3:33
48	609	Bryce Rasmussen	3:35
49	607	Charles Parsons	3:35
50	553	Alan Eastlund	3:39
51	595	Mick Carlson	3:40
52	552	Grant Braasch	3:43
53	582	Ken Zylstra	3:43
54	558	Chelsea Strate	3:45
55	580	Chris Stuckman	3:46
56	577	Lee Venteicher	3:46
57	507	Eddie Karow	3:48
58	534	Nick Evanoff	3:50
59	551	Chad Millner	3:57
60	509	Shawn Cotter	3:57
61	504	Jon Vick	3:57
62	559	Lukas Eklund	3:59
63	603	Justin Kelly	4:00
64	593	Chad Kelly	4:00
65	517	Ryan Haug	4:03
66	617	Jonas Nygard	4:04
67	501	Paul Urbanski	4:08
68	515	Jon Anderson	4:08
69	614	Dan Funke	4:15
70	512	Barry Meitler	4:15
71	510	Charles Showalter	4:19
72	549	Mark Seaburg	4:21
73	599	Joel Benton	4:25
74	545	Jay Schneider	4:25
75	590	Meredith Rambow	4:25
76	556	Rob Williams	4:32
77	524	Adam Messer	4:32
78	508	Ray Nickles	4:32
79	571	Matthew Abel	4:37
80	581	Mike Criego	4:39
81	538	Jeff Henkemeyer	4:41
82	543	Michael Landreville	4:47
83	541	Thomas Erickson	4:47
84	521	Leah Gruhn	4:48
85	611	Neil Cary	4:48
86	560	Patrick Sheedy	4:53
87	522	Jere Mohr	5:00
88	523	Jon Loye	5:00
89	506	Andy Weinzierl	5:12
90	578	Heath Weisbrod	5:12
91	564	Matt Johnson	5:12
92	529	Justin Schuetz	5:14
93	550	Bob Sheperd	5:16
94	511	Craig Irving	5:16
95	587	Ryan Birkemeier	5:18
96	586	Joseph DeMars	5:18
97	598	Daniel Backman	5:23
98	584	Mike Lee	5:27
99	596	Mara Larson	5:43
100	542	Angie Hop	5:49
101	606	Alex Koppi-Kohn	6:21
102	594	Max Dingemans	7:10
103	588	Melissa Hunter	Out LC
104	605	Brett Swenson	Out LC
105	537	Sean Bujold	Out LC
106	568	Jack Schwinghamer	Out LC
107	600	Eric Johnson	Out ZF
108	563	Wade Johnson	Out ZF
109	575	Amy Sportel	Out ZF
110	526	Linsey Olesiak	Out ZF
111	516	Jeremy Fry	Out
112	579	Tryg Nederloe	Out
113	505	Gary Lindberg	Out
114	562	Rob Dosse	Out
115	601	Don Bahls	Out
116	539	Jeff Haye	Out

Some Details

Here are some details...

Check in:

You have two options if your name is on the final roster.

1) Day before, Friday the 8th, around 7:30-9:30ish at the Red Wing Brewery on Old West Main.
2) Day of, we'll be set-up roughly 6:15 or so at Mississippi National Golf Links. Please don't show up at 7:20... we'll try and get you checked in and ready to go before the 7:30 start, but there are lots more folks probably than previous years. We'll try and keep things going smoothly, but it's not like we're pros.

We will have a couple of port-a-potties at the start/finish someplace.

Some rules/general guidelines:

1) YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU!
2) Have back up plans, pickup plans in an emergency, etc. We will not and can not provide chauffeur services to everyone.
3) When going downhill -- ride within yourself. These hills can allow some crazy speeds and see #1...
4) When going uphill and around corners try and ride to the right. Drivers will not be expecting you so ... see #1.
5) The weather is a huge variable. Be ready for it... see #1.

Checkpoint notes (this is mainly for Zumbro Falls):

When you come into the checkpoint, PLEASE calmly make sure that we catch your number so we can keep track of everything. We may try and build some sort of corral that you have to ride through to keep things organized. Just assume that once you get on the gravel in the ZF checkpoint that things are neutralized.

Also --> DO NOT CUT THE COURSE! If I know the number of anyone who cuts through the ball fields in Zumbro Falls you will be DQ'd.

FINAL ROSTER

I think I have everything up-to-date... because of last minute drops I am just letting in all of the official waitlist. We didn't really get below the 150 limit, so I'm not going to open it up to others who whether by bad luck (if the post office didn't postmark it in time) or not knowing about the ride, didn't get their name on the list by postcard. I am sorry, but there is always next year.

If you see your name on this list - you will be able to get a number and cue sheet. If you are not on the list, sorry but you will not get those from us, and while the roads are public and I can't stop you, I would appreciate not riding along and confusing things at checkpoints.

Thanks!

Name	Number	ZF	LC	Finish
Abel, Matthew
Anderson, Bruce
Anderson, Jon
Backman, Daniel
Bahls, Don
Bakker, Carl
Barr, Megan
Bell, David
Bell, Pete
Benton, Joel
Birkemeier, Ryan
Braasch, Grant
Breckon, Royce
Brown, Robert
Bujold, Sean
Callas, Bill
Carlson, Mick
Carlton, Philip
Carroll, Paul
Cary, Neil "O"
Clausen, Ted
Cotter, Shawn
Cox, Ben
Criego, Mike
DeMars, Joseph
Denis, Charles
Dingemans, Max
Doom, Ben
Dosse, Rob
Early, Ken
Eastlund, Alan
Eckert, Seth
Eklund, Lukas
Elson, Brandt
Elson, Samuel
Endres, Chris
Erickson, Thomas
Evanoff, Nick
Everstone, Hurl
Floden, Amy
Flynn, Shaun
Fosler, Bryan
Frane, Jeff
Fry, Jeremy
Funke, Dan
Gaffke, Dustin
Gaz, Dan
Grant, Jennifer
Gruhn, Leah
Hamlin, Joe
Hansen, Boyd
Hartney, Mark
Hau, Tim
Haug, Ryan
Haye, Jeff
Henkemeyer, Jeff
Hippen, Scott
Hoogendam, Ian
Hop, Angie
Hudson-Erdman, Jonah
Hunter, Melissa
Hurd, Wendy
Irving, Craig
Johnson, Eric
Johnson, Joe
Johnson, Matt
Johnson, Wade
Karow, Eddie
Kauth, James
Kelly, Chad
Kelly, Justin
Kern, Jon
Kies, Scott
King, Susannah
Koppi-Kohn, Alex
Kvittem, Brent
LaLonde, Jesse
Landreville, Michael
Langum, Leigh
Larson, Mara
Larson, Patrick
Lee, Mike
Lindberg, Gary
Loosen, Ted
Loye, Jon
Mach, Elizabeth
Mailen, Sean
Meiser, Joe
Meitler, Barry
Messer, Adam
Millner, Chad
Moeding, Andrew
Mohr, Jere
Nederloe, Tryg
Newberg, Carl
Nickles, Ray Ray
Nikodym, Matt
Nygård, Jonas
Olesiak, Linsey O'Neill, Jeff
Oney, Ben
Parsons, Charles
Pettes, Jeff
Piech, Dawn
Pramann, David
Rambow, Meredith
Rasmussen, Bryce
Raygor, Trenton
Roenfanz, Parker
Sauber, Larry
Schad, Charlie
Schauss, Scott
Schmitt, Barry
Schneider, Jay
Schneider, Joshua
Schotz, Chris
Schuetz, Justin
Schwinghamer, Jack
Seaburg, Mark
Sheedy, Patrick
Shelley, Dirk
Shepherd, Bob
Shoemaker, Darryl
Showalter, Charles
Shupe, Jeff
Smith, Harlan
Sobota, Kyle
Soltis, Steve
Sportel, Amy Sportel, Ryan St. Pierre, Sam
Strate, Chelsea
Stuckman, Chris
Stukel, Jason
Swenson, Brett
Tiede, Travis
Urbanski, Paul
Venteicher, Lee
Vick, Jon
Vold, Svetlana
Ward, Denise
Watchmaker, Todd
Webb, Matthew
WeinzierL, Andy
Weisbrod, Heath "Red Squirrel"
Williams, Rob
Wilson, Drew
Yore, Steven
Zylstra, Ken