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RAGBRAI 2026
RAGBRAI 2026 (RAGBRAI LIII) is the 53rd edition of Iowa's annual seven-day supported cycling tour, running about 391 miles (630 km) from Onawa to Dubuque from 18 to 25 July, with around 16,027 feet (4,885 m) of climbing on its tenth-hilliest route.
Onawa, Iowa, United StatesOpen
- Dates
- Sat, Jul 18, 2026
- Type
- Road
- Routes
- 630 km
- elevation range
- 4,885–4,885 m
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The course
Track, profile and categorized climbs at a glance. The map and altimetry come from the real GPX track; tap a numbered climb for its detail.
Official profile
Official distance and elevation with a rolling profile. We estimate your times from those numbers.
Estimate by level
Without a GPX we still estimate your time from the official distance, elevation and terrain profile. We will refine it once the track is processed.
Map, point-to-point profile and categorized climbs will appear here once we process the GPX track for this route.
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Can I do this?
How long you would be in the saddle at your level. Not one single time — the one that matches you.
Your level
A Intermediate rider (3.0 W/kg W/kg) would cross Full week (Onawa to Dubuque) in
22h29
regular group rides · 72 kg reference · no drafting · variable pacing
See all four levels
Beginnerfirst long rides
2.5 W/kg
24h39
Intermediateregular group rides
3.0 W/kg
22h29
Advancedstructured training
3.5 W/kg
20h53
Eliteamateur racer
4.0 W/kg
19h38
72 kg referencesurface-based bike and tiresno draftingvariable pacing
Calculate your exact timeEnter your FTP and weight in the simulator to see your time on every route.
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Do I have time to get ready?
What each route demands versus the time left to the start.
24days to the start. Full week (Onawa to Dubuque) asks for ~16 weeks: for this edition you are fine-tuning, not building.
Compare what each route demands
Full week (Onawa to Dubuque)16 weeksExtreme
Make it your goalFull week (Onawa to Dubuque) asks for ~16 weeks of specific preparation. Start your plan with margin and arrive ready.
Get ready for Full week (Onawa to Dubuque)[ 04 ]
What do I need to know?
Ridium's training read and the caveats before you trust the times.
Training read · Ridium AIRAGBRAI 2026 is a seven-day supported road tour of about 630 km and 4,885 m of rolling climbing from Onawa to Dubuque, so its main demand is repeating long days back to back rather than any single hard effort. Treat it as a multi-day endurance challenge where steady pacing, daily recovery, and consistent fueling matter more than top-end fitness.
- Endurance
Because the week stacks roughly 90 km of rolling road riding day after day, build toward consecutive back-to-back long rides in training rather than one isolated long ride, so your body adapts to riding tired.
- Pacing
With an extreme overall endurance load spread across seven days, ride the early days conservatively and well within a comfortable aerobic effort, since pacing a tour is about arriving fresh each morning rather than racing any single stage.
- Fueling
Practice eating and drinking on the bike during your long training rides, and rehearse a routine of regular carbohydrate intake and steady hydration, because supporting many consecutive long days depends on consistent daily fueling.
- Recovery
Plan deliberate between-day recovery such as easy spinning, refueling soon after each day, and protecting sleep, since the cumulative fatigue of seven straight riding days is the defining challenge of this route.
- Heat
If late-July Iowa conditions turn hot or humid, increase hydration, ease your pace, and use rest stops to cool down, because riding many long days in heat compounds fatigue across the week.
- Endurance
Use the published distance and elevation to anchor a roughly four-month aerobic build if you have about 16 weeks to prepare, progressively raising weekly hours and back-to-back ride volume on rolling terrain.
Caveats
- No completed GPX analysis was available for this route at generation time.
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