24-hour time trial. Maupin, OR. In addition to the 24-hour solo division, there is a 12-hour option, tandem and team categories.
Author: Cathy
Different diet tip
Not anything radical, but a little different approach.
Note: It you are interested in reading the whole article, my guess is the link below will only work for a short time.
RAAM, the greatest challenge?
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.
Eight woman RAAM
Leigh Hunter of Team Blazing Saddles, arrives in La Veta
Friday morning.
The eight woman team came through about 6 AM on Friday. They looked like they were having a lot of fun. They are riding as two teams of four, which I guess is typical for eight person teams. Each team takes a ten hour shift. The four riders that are “on duty” rotate with each one riding about five miles. Anyone want to ride on an eight woman team in 2009?
The weather has been beautiful the last day and a half, sunny and unusually calm. All the riders this morning have seemed to look forward to the La Veta to Trinidad leg. I have been told by people who have seen the whole route that it is the most beautiful section on the course.