s 17,000 bicycle riders headed east Thursday morning bound for Anamosa and eventually the Mississippi River, Tavis Hall and his group of sweaty Waterloo RAGBRAI volunteers snapped photos downtown, happy to have crossed their own finish line.
“Logistically, it went off really without a hitch,” said Hall, the director of Waterloo RAGBRAI and Experience Waterloo. “We couldn’t be more pleased. We felt like we executed in a way that made folks proud.”
Lt. Aaron McClelland, who was coordinating the Waterloo Police Department’s RAGBRAI response, said there were “no major incidents and very few minor incidents” citywide, “which is amazing having that many people in town.”
“The cooperation between all agencies and entities made it a huge success,” McClelland said. “I could not be more proud of the employees of the city and county.”