Pat Ryan has never had a bad day.

If you ask him how he is, that is what he will tell you. He also really seems to mean it. When you see the man we call “PR,” you just cannot help but smile. He always has that effect on people.

PR is also one of the most interesting people you will ever meet. If you follow him on Facebook, you know that PR and his son Will recently rode in a bike race across Iowa. That in itself would have been an amazing accomplishment. PR and Will, though, also rode their bikes from Butte to Iowa to begin the race, racking up about 1,700 miles apiece.

Before he taking on such great journeys on his bike, PR was an All-State center playing for Coach Jon McElroy on the Butte High football team. He was also a member of a couple of Coach Jim Street’s state championship wrestling teams for the Bulldogs.

He was a sportswriter, photographer, handball player and pretty much everything else you can think of before he finally settled in on his current job as an engineer for the school district.

Through it all, PR always has a smile on his face.

Listen in to hear PR talk about that incredible ride to and through Iowa, which isn’t as flat as you might think. Listen as he talks about competing for legendary coaches like Street and McElroy.

Listen as he talks about his handball days and the killer first line he came up with when he wrote his own obituary, which luckily has not been published.

Listen to see that PR really hasn’t had a bad day.

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