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oh come one she is doing the whole thing sitting down... how hard can that be (said tongue in cheek, please don't hit me!)

Heh! Now you understand the lure of these contraptions!

actually I have always wanted to give one a try. On a more serious note, I have always thought the RAAM was one of the coolest things I have seen. I know that there is a documentary out about the RAAM that I would love to see.

The idea of 3000 miles in 10 days is just a daunting amount of numbers. I was so excited when I got 1000 miles after months I tried to do the TDF fist pump and wrecked my bike. (true story)

Ditto on the RAAM documentary. It's tough to make a race like this exciting, as it's not like you have a lot of breakaways and sprints (at least not measured in less than geologic time), but it's supposed to be a fun film.

Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost admiration for anyone who gives RAAM a shot, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the folks like Kyle Bryant and Kristina Rippati who have significantly larger obstacles than most to surmount.

Reddan

I hear you man, I just watched the film about Kyle Bryant and I got to say I am both amazed and a little bit ashamed.

Amazed at the heart courage and stamina of someone like Kyle

and

Ashamed that I look at the 12 mile trip into town as some kind of barrier.

Looks like I have a blog post to write for fatguy...

Was talking to Danny Chew about RAAM... basically, you're riding at pace for as long as you can take it, take a 2 hr nap, do some recovery on the bike for several hours, and get going again. Talk about white line fever.

Not to harsh your buzz, but one of this year's competitors was creamed by a distracted driver in Kansas the other day.

Knowing how wonky I get when sleep deprived after a measly 20 hours, I cannot imagine the mental state one goes through as a solo. Tim Wouderberg (over-50 male solo) was saying something about losing his mind and a sky full of blueberries. And that was more than a day ago...

I guess that's where your crew comes in. They think for you, so you can just keep turning the pedals over.

Not to harsh your buzz, but one of this year's competitors was creamed by a distracted driver in Kansas the other day.

Yep, heard about that.

Another team had to quit, 'cause their DRIVER fell asleep and rolled their RV. I guess that could technically be chalked up as "DNF-Mechanical"?

Never a dull moment...

my friend was crewing for the team who crashed the RV, fortunately there were only injuries...not deaths.

Pics of Jure Robic at Mt Airy, courtesy Bill Beck, DC Randonneurs.

Dude looks all kinds of calm, cool, and collected.

Last week, one of my neighbors mentioned a close friend of her fathers' is on his way, http://ultradex.net/

I love RAAM. It is part of my before-I-turn-thirty list to do. I'd like to do it one team in a few years, but I just need to find some people to join me.

Has anyone ever done it on a tall bike? Just sayin'...

Fixed yes, 'bent yes, singlespeed yes.

Tallbike, unicycle, and penny farthing are still wide open.

(Hmm...mixed team, tallbike and unicycle...)

I may have been dumb enough to do a tall bike century on 50 minutes of sleep, but I am not dumb enough to attempt RAAM on a tall bike.

....now a tall bike team... possibly.

i'll ride the ordinary. although, i imagine falling off your bike from sheer exhaustion is not uncommon in raam, and that's a long way to fall. i'll have to have team cars on either side with mattresses on top.

Lemmesee if I can make a 30-mile round trip on a unicycle a couple times a week, then maybe I'll call you about RAAM.