Anyone who's interested, there is a four person HPV team category in this years' Race Across AMerica. The race started earlier this week and the first place team since Kansas IS the HPV team, Team ALS Lightning. Comprised of Sam Whittington, James Kern, Timothy Wouldenberg and Bob Fourney, Team ALS passed the front running upright four person teams in Kansas. They will be coming in first place (barring any catastrophes) tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the way. The race runs from San Diego CA to Atlantic City NJ. You can check the whole race out at http://www.caida.org/~dmoore/raam2004/ and Team ALS at http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam2004/2004riders/teamalslightingpro.htm
Anyone who's interested, there is a four person HPV team category in this years' Race Across AMerica. The race started earlier this week and the first place team since Kansas IS the HPV team, Team ALS Lightning. Comprised of Sam Whittington, James Kern, Timothy Wouldenberg and Bob Fourney, Team ALS passed the front running upright four person teams in Kansas. They will be coming in first place (barring any catastrophes) tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the way.
Yes The mountains of West Virginia also took their toll on the average speed of the team, too, allowing the 2nd place team to close the gap to 1 hour. The remaining 108 miles is relatively flat though, and I am hoping that the HPV team will remain in the lead for the final push in to Atlantic City.
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years' Race Across AMerica. The race started earlier this week and the first place team since Kansas IS the HPV team, Team ALS Lightning. Comprised of Sam Whittington, James Kern, Timothy Wouldenberg and Bob Fourney, Team ALS passed the front running upright four person teams in Kansas. They will be coming in first place (barring any catastrophes) tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the way.
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race runs from San Diego CA to Atlantic City NJ. You can check the
What's up with that 8.82MPH average last leg? It took them 1:38 to cover the last 14.4 miles (DF'ers did it in 0:24).
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Yes The mountains of West Virginia also took their toll on the average speed of the team, too, allowing the 2nd place team to close the gap to 1 hour. The remaining 108 miles is relatively flat though, and I am hoping that the HPV team will remain in the lead for the final push in to
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Anyone who's interested, there is a four person HPV team category in
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years' Race Across AMerica. The race started earlier this week and
the
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first place team since Kansas IS the HPV team, Team ALS Lightning. Comprised of Sam Whittington, James Kern, Timothy Wouldenberg and Bob Fourney, Team ALS passed the front running upright four person teams
in
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Kansas. They will be coming in first place (barring any catastrophes) tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the way.
The
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race runs from San Diego CA to Atlantic City NJ. You can check the
Anyone who's interested, there is a four person HPV team category in this years' Race Across AMerica. The race started earlier this week and the first place team since Kansas IS the HPV team, Team ALS Lightning. Comprised of Sam Whittington, James Kern, Timothy Wouldenberg and Bob Fourney, Team ALS passed the front running upright four person teams in Kansas. They will be coming in first place (barring any catastrophes) tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the way. The race runs from San Diego CA to Atlantic City NJ. You can check the whole race out at http://www.caida.org/~dmoore/raam2004/ and Team ALS at http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam2004/2004riders/teamalslightingpro.htm
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:59:07 GMT, John Knezevich <[email hidden]> wrote in message <[email hidden]>:
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It's official now. Team ALS Lightning, a 4 man recumbent team, was the first team across the RAAM finish line.
Impossible. Nobody buys a recumbent to go fast, Mr Ed says so...
What was this? 4 guys taking turns riding a faired recumbent? I think I will confine my interest to the real world of the solo riders doing it all on their own. No one would be interested in this RAAM at all except for the solo riders. Any recumbent solo riders on RAAM?
Might've been that that last time station was where penalties are meted out, and racers are 'held' for their penalties. Plus the logistics of putting the final rider(s) together may've delayed some too.
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What's up with that 8.82MPH average last leg? It took them 1:38 to cover the last 14.4 miles (DF'ers did it in 0:24).
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Yes The mountains of West Virginia also took their toll on the average speed of the team, too, allowing the 2nd place team to close the gap to
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hour. The remaining 108 miles is relatively flat though, and I am
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that the HPV team will remain in the lead for the final push in to
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City.
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> Anyone who's interested, there is a four person HPV team category in
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> tonight after midnight. They have truly been smokin' most of the
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The > race runs from San Diego CA to Atlantic City NJ. You can check the
As for the low mph in the last leg, I suspect it might be due to exhaustion! Penalties were assessed along the route and were posted for the teams to see on the internet.
In RAAM, much of the thrill, is seeing if the body will actually get you there, and that would be true probably even in a group ride on a bent...
As for the low mph in the last leg, I suspect it might be due to exhaustion! Penalties were assessed along the route and were posted for the teams to see on the internet.
In RAAM, much of the thrill, is seeing if the body will actually get you there, and that would be true probably even in a group ride on a bent...
Melanie
Reading the RAAM website and the maps for the riders, I noticed that at the end of the race a bridge was closed to bikes during certain times and the RAAM riders were to wait at beginning of the bridge until it opened to bikes as much as 8 hrs later. May be that the recumbent team got there at a bad time and had to sit and wait.
