Trans-Iowa Does NOT Disappoint...The Trans-Iowa provides an awesome experience for all involved.

Most people now-a-dayz use the word, awesome, incorrectly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Awe´some
1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
2. Expressive of awe or terror.
An awesome glance up at the auld castle.
- Sir W. Scott.

Adj. 1. awesome - inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awing, amazing, awful

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Wow...it was even better than I hoped it would be...How many times can a guy say that...The Trans-Iowa was truly AWESOME.
Here is what I am thinking about (a theme that I plan to explore in my race recap)…I am fascinated by how the extraordinary unknowns that are so embedded in this great physical challenge facilitate and dictate the social bonds that develop between the participates. Or in otherwords, How Eki saved my butt!!!