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By the end of the day, everyone’s tired and hates each other. But the one thing.NTH]that keeps you gotng is that long after you've quit riding, somewhere back there — still riding — is Mr.' Pickard, arid he's smiling. He's 83 years old, and if he can make, it, then, by God, the rest of us can, too/'—0. T. CoffeepoBy Chuck Offenburger coThe snappy- young dudes started arriving at the Hyatt House about II a.m....Wednesday. The “names” of the excursion - The Register's Donald Kaul and John Karras — rolled in about 1 p.m. And then the wait started.About 3:30 p.m., it ended.The star of the Great Six-Day Bike Trip across Iowa — Clarence Pickard of Indianola — pedaled into the parking lot with his silver pith helmet, his green 10-speed Schwinn, and his own folksy thoughts about being 83 years old and doing something as crazy as riding a two-wheeler across Iowa.%He acknowledged the oolite applause from his fellow riders, ordered a tall water in the coffee shop and began talking.“I’m not all that phenomenalTwc*rcf.HUoN~ like^copie-have-been-sayifigr1(Are Ihe says. “It's just that I’ve always worked hard — farm-mg, cutting trees, gathering trash — and I’m in good shape.♦“Right Time”“Mr, Haul’s idea for this trip hit at just the right time for me. I'm negotiating to sell my farm (160 acres, a mile east of Indianola) to the city for a park, and so I figure that any work I do out there now is freeto the. city*“And the wife (Mildred, 78) left today to have surgery inaltth(Wlt;1LaDsMlt;FmiColumbia, Mo. She‘s got to ^ have a knee' repaired from a afall she took at the Tulip Fesli- ,r
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1973
Page 14
Full Page
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