Leader of the Women’s Solo race, Kerry White, rolls into TS 19
for a quick break Thursday evening.
After 3+ days at a RAAM time station, I’ve come to see RAAM as one of, if not the, greatest challenge in sports. I would love for an interviewer to ask Wolfgang Fasching, who has summited Everest and won RAAM multiple times, to compare the two endeavors. RAAM makes a 100 mile trail run seem like a stroll through the forest. Consider Jure Robic, currently leading the 2007 race. It was reported yesterday about 1:00PM EST that he had about 6 hours sleep since the race start. So he had covered 1900 miles in just over 5 days on approximately 6 hours of sleep.
There is still one rider who has yet to make it through TS 19. Sixty year-old, Patty Riddle, is going steady and is expected between 8PM and midnight local time. She and her husband, Terry Dutton, set a record for two-person, over-50, mixed team, in the 2006 RAAM.
these posts have made my hip hurt.
I did see somewhere but I’ve forgotten now where that Fasching said RAAM was harder than climbing Everest. A couple years ago a guy tried RAAM that I think had summited Everest twice. He didn’t finish RAAM.