RAMROD 2022 - Post-ride Stats/Information from the Organizers

 

R A M R O D - Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day

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RAMROD Numbers

We’ve received lots of questions (and we’ve seen some errant speculation) around all of that ice, how many riders went to Crystal and the average # of ice cream bars consumed by a finisher. We live in a data-driven world so let’s dive in.

Ice, Ice, Baby

2022 was hot and we put our full heat safety package in place. Side note: we developed this safety plan for our 2009 Edition of RAMROD which interestingly enough featured the same route except that it started/finished at the high school. While 2022 was hot, the hottest year on record by far remains this 2009 Edition. Find a survivor from 2009 and they’ll tell you what it was like to descend from Crystal in 100 degree headwinds. This year we shipped 4,000 lbs of ice out on the course. What’s most remarkable about this is that every pound was handled by volunteers and loaded on a truck, driven to the remote locations on the route, taken from the truck and then distributed to bottles, socks and coolers.

H20

On the far side of the course, water, like ice has to be hand-delivered via volunteers and trucks to make available on the side of a road like the Deer Creek stop. We brought over 1,000 gallons of drinking water to the remote stops and on our SAG vehicles. Note: Start, Eatonville, and Ashford serve water from local water systems so this isn’t total water served.

Riders

2022 saw a lower-than normal number of riders leave the Start Line compared to a normal year. There were two factors at play this year: #1 and most significant was COVID which impacted the ability for some riders to participate beginning in late May and right up to event day. (Also of note is that COVID would have a similar effect on volunteers requiring continual replacement and shuffling up until event day.) The second factor was concern over heat. Between the forecast and the cool training season prior to the forecast, many riders made good decisions to ride the route another day.

The Numbers

635 riders left the Start Line at Enumclaw

236 riders (37%) made it up to the Crystal turn-around

605 riders (95%) finished in Enumclaw

Finishing rate was equal among female & male riders (95%)

Completion rate (95 vs 96% 2019) & medical attention was comparable to previous years

4,000 lbs of ice delivered

1,000 gallons of drinking water delivered

1,600 artisan cookies from Pinckney Cookie Cafe delivered

Average ice cream bars per finisher remains unknown : )

Photo: A RAMROD volunteer cools off in the final hour

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