Hi RAAM Fans ...
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Note to crews from Headquarters:
On I8 in Arizona and on I10 in New Mexico, all riders must ride on the
shoulder even if it looks unrideable. Nick reports you may need to use your Mountain
Bike if necessary. If you do not ride on the shoulder, you will receive a
severe time penalty or be disqualified without warning. These states could
cancel RAAM if anyone is caught riding in the lane with traffic.
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Note to crews from Headquarters:
In Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, the RAAM Headquarters Toll Free phone
number may not work. Here is a work around:
Dial 10-10-ATT-0
This will get you to an AT&T Operator who will dial the call at no charge to
you.
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Hot Item -- With this update, Headquarters has merged Seana in with the Men
for one Solo Divison Report. I'm sure Seana would approve of that!! Overall
position numbers have been corrected -- for the Solo Men and Women, the
Overall position is one series of numbers and for the Teams that started Thursday, the
Overall position is another series of numbers starting with 1.
Hot Item -- Gerry Tatrai, The Wonder From Down Under (Australia), has extended
his lead over Seana Hogan in Second Place to 1 Hour and 40 Minutes lead, at
Time Station 9 (Cutter, AZ), 557 miles into the race.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley continues in 3rd place with no change in 4th to 7th
place.
Hot Item -- Last Year's Men's Champion Wolfgang Fasching appears to be
recovering from his earlier problems as he has moved up from 21st Place to
16th. He is currently about 160 Miles behind the leaders.
Hot Item -- Paul Solon started slow but has moved up from 12th Place to a tie
for 9th place. He may be continuing his assault for what appears to target
the leaders at the Mississippi River?
Hot Item -- Tomas Celta, the first Czech rider to race in RAAM, is definitely
running into problems as he is only through Time Station 1 so he is at least
473 miles behind the leaders. He has probably dropped from the Race but it may be
that he doesn't understand that he needs to call Headquarters and report.
Hot Item -- In the 70+ Division, Team Secure Horizons continues to lead Team
70+ by about 2 Hours.
Hot Item -- I checked each Rider's Individual Rider Statistics and did not
find any new Time Penalties or Rider Notes.
Interesting Item -- Hugh Murphy reports from Headquarters that the Deputy
Commander of New Mexico called in. He has been seeing the RAAM Coverage on
NBC News as well as ABC's Good Morning America -- thanks to Michael, Nick, and
the expanded RAAM Coverage this year. The Deputy Commander and his boss are
Bicycle Riders big time -- well, maybe not quite as much as the RAAM Riders
that are about to ride across his state!! Anyway, the Deputy Commander is at
the border waiting for Gerry Tatrai and planning a Fireworks show for "The
Wonder from Down Under" when he gets to the border of New Mexico!! This is in
honor of RAAM coming through New Mexico and the Deputy Commander plans to
personally going to greet every rider. Of course, if Gerry isn't careful, the
fireworks will be for Seana who is HOT on his tail!!
Interesting Item -- As Hugh Murphy has reported, "Tatrai has an odd looking
pole that extends out in front of his pace van at roof height. It turned out to be
the world's largest water pistol squirting water on him as he rode." There is
quite a bit of discussion about this at Headquarters -- sounds like a MAJOR
BREAKTHROUGH IN SHOWER TECHNOLOGY to me!! Leave it to Gerry to break through
into new ground -- taking the Garden Sprayers to the NEXT GENERATION. The
Orange County Register has a great article on Page 16 of the Thursday 7/23/98
Sports Section showing Seana being sprayed down by a member of her Crew with
her Garden Sprayer with a number of enhancements to it. At the start, we
noticed that Gerry had "Air Conditioned Bicycle Shoes" -- where he cut the top
of the first half of his shoes off in order to help prevent Hot Foot. Gerry
continues to push the envelope as do so many of these RAAM Riders!! :) :) :)
All credit for this work should go to RAAM Headquarters manned by the SCOR
Club and headed by Larry Mahrenholtz. The Web Site is totally awesome and if
you don't have Internet Access, you need to get it in order to really see what
each
rider is doing through each time station, etc. Check out:
http://www.RAAMOnline.com
These results may not line up on your CRT because of the Proportional Font
being used -- Copy them from here and Paste them into your Word Processor with
a Courier font and they will appear in columns.
Chuck Bramwell
California Triple Crown Guy
RAAM Web Page Transcriptionist
RAAM Route Individual Standings (1998)
Created on Friday, July 24, 1998 at 11:26 pm (est)
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* DIVISION REPORT - Solo Divisions
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Division: Solo, Men
Division Leader:
Rider #150 (Gerry Tatrai) passed through station 9 (Cutter, AZ) at 8:40:00 PM
(EDT) on Friday, July 24, 1998, 557.3 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day hrs. Mi Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 9 7/24/98 8:40 PM 32.42 557.30 413 17.2 0.0 0.00 1
161 Seana Hogan 9 7/24/98 9:46 PM 33.52 557.30 399 16.6 0.0 1.10 2
196 Tom Buckley 8 7/24/98 7:24 PM 31.15 512.50 395 16.5 3
97 Steve Born 8 7/24/98 7:43 PM 31.47 512.50 391 16.3 4
39 Rob Kish 8 7/24/98 9:21 PM 33.10 512.50 372 15.5 5
231 Harold Trease 8 7/24/98 9:30 PM 33.25 512.50 370 15.4 6
129 Danny Chew 8 7/24/98 10:00 PM 33.75 512.50 364 15.2 7
229 Mark Patten 7 7/24/98 6:06 PM 29.85 450.00 362 15.1 8
223 Andreas Clavedetsc7 7/24/98 7:01 PM 30.77 450.00 351 14.6 9
80 Paul Solon 7 7/24/98 7:01 PM 30.77 450.00 351 14.6 10
222 Andrew Bohannon 7 7/24/98 7:28 PM 31.22 450.00 346 14.4 11
220 Rick Anderson 7 7/24/98 8:37 PM 32.37 450.00 334 13.9 12
219 Giovanni Zilioli 7 7/24/98 9:56 PM 33.68 450.00 321 13.4 13
210 Fabio Biasiolo 7 7/24/98 10:39 PM 34.40 450.00 314 13.1 14
225 Hansgeorg Haus 6 7/24/98 5:05 PM 28.83 391.00 325 13.6 15
201 Wolfgang Fasching 6 7/24/98 6:12 PM 29.95 391.00 313 13.1 16
227 Charles Liskey 6 7/24/98 7:10 PM 30.92 391.00 304 12.6 17
226 Tim Kinkeade 6 7/24/98 7:40 PM 31.42 391.00 299 12.4 18
114 Aldo Calandro 5 7/24/98 8:21 PM 32.10 342.85 256 10.7 19
224 Bernie Comeau 4 7/24/98 7:24 AM 19.15 275.25 345 14.4 20
230 Bob Kimber 4 7/24/98 11:53 AM 23.63 275.25 280 11.6 21
221 Tomas Celta 1 7/23/98 5:17 PM 5.03 83.96 400 16.7 22
Division: - 2 Man Relay Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM57 (Team Gustavo Rmo Franca) passed through station 10 (Safford,
AZ) at 9:33:00 PM (EDT) on Friday, July 24, 1998, 610.7 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day hrs. Mi Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo10 7/24/98 9:33 PM 33.30 610.70 440 18.3 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 7 (Casa
Grande, AZ) at 6:49:00 PM (EDT) on Friday, July 24, 1998, 450 miles into the
race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day hrs. Mi Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 7 7/24/98 6:49 PM 30.57 450.00 353 14.7 0.0 0.00 2
TM36 Team 70+ 7 7/24/98 9:13 PM 32.97 450.00 328 13.7 0.0 2.40 3
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* TIME PENALTIES and NOTES -- All Solo Riders and Teams that Started Thursday
* With The Solo Riders
*
* Listed in order of Rider's Last Name
*
* Last Updated: 7/24/98 11:26 P.M. EST by Chuck Bramwell from each
* Rider's Web Page
*
*
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Anderson, Rick
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Biasiolo, Fabio
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Bohannon, Andrew
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Born, Steve
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Buckley, Tom
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Calandro, Aldo
TOTAL PENALTIES = 15 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: Failed to stop at stop sign RP#51, called in by
Mike Roark
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Celta, Tomas
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Chew, Danny
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Clavedetscher, Andreas
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Comeau, Bernie
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Fasching, Wolfgang
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Haus, Hansgeorg
TOTAL PENALTIES = 0 min.
Time: 0 min. Reason: warning given by Tracie Holmes, did not pull vehicle
completely off road when assisting rider
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Hogan, Seana
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Kimber, Bob
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Kinkeade, Tim
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Kish, Rob
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Liskey, Charles
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Patten, Mark
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Solon, Paul
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Tatrai, Gerry
TOTAL PENALTIES = 0 min.
Time: 0 min. Reason: Warning at RP# 040 urinating while on the bike
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Team Gustavo Rmo
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Secure Horizons
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team 70+
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Trease, Harold
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Zilioli, Giovanni
TOTAL PENALTIES = 45 min.
Time: 30 min. Reason: Failed to stop at a red stop light at RP# 042,
called in by Mike Roark
Time: 15 min. Reason: Failed to stop at stop sign at RP# 038, called in
by Mike Roark
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