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 -- Gerry Tatrai, The Wonder From Down Under (Australia), has extended
his lead over Seana Hogan in Second Place to about 3 Hours, at Time Station 14
(Alamogordo, NM), 868 miles into the race. Gerry has actually made it to Time
Station 15 in Mayhill, New Mexico as of this report in First Place. As
previously reported, the Deputy Commander from the State of New Mexico
delivered on his promise for a Fireworks show for both Gerry and Seana as the crossed
into New Mexico!!
Hot Item -- In my previous E-Mail, I was comparing Gerry Tatrai's Stellar
performance here to Pete Penesyre's 1986 RAAM where he had a Total Average
Speed of 15.7 MPH. Since the last update, Gerry has ridden another 221 Miles
and has kept his Total Average Speed at 15.7 MPH!! Seana's Total Average Speed is an
incredible 15.0 MPH!! Both are riding extremely well.
Hot Item -- Seana Hogan continues in 2nd place -- ahead of all of the other
men!! Seana is absolutely amazing!! I previously reported that she always
rides with a large 56 Tooth Chainring but I was incorrect: it's a 57 Tooth Big
Ring on there!! She leads Tom Buckley in 3rd place by about 30 minutes.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley has moved back into 3rd place, leading the next 4
riders by a total gap of only 2 hours. This entire group is jockeying for position.
Extremely Hot Item -- Rob Kish is on the move. He has moved up from 9th Place
to 4th Place and is only 1 Hour behind Tom Buckley in 3rd Place.
Hot Item -- It appears that Paul Solon and Steve Born are neck and neck
battling it out. Only 10 minutes separated the two at Time Station 13!!
Hot Item -- I have started uploading my RAAM Start Line Photos. Go to:
http://www.CalTripleCrown.com
then to 1998 Race Across America Start Line Photos. This is definitely a work
in progress and much more will follow there. Boy, I sure wish I had a cool
Casio Camera and knew as much about HTML as Nick does -- his Web Pages are
Masterpieces at:
http://www.RAAMOnline.com
Hot Item -- Let's talk about the Rookies.
Mark Patten is from Saratoga, California and is in 6th Place.
Harold Trease from Jemez Springs, New Mexico is in 13th place.
Andreas Clavedetscher from Liechenstein is in 5th place.
Andrew Bohannon from Sunnyvale, California is in 11th place.
Rick Anderson from Woodside, California is currently in 12th place.
Hansgeorg Haus from Permasens, Germany, is currently in 15th place.
Tim Kinkeade from Moscow, Idaho is currently in 16th place.
Charlie Liskey from Somis, California is in 17th place.
Bernie Comeau from Ottawa, Canada is in 20th place.
Hot Item -- Last Year's Men's Champion Wolfgang Fasching continues to be
recovering from his earlier problems as he has moved up from 12th to 10th
Place. He is currently about 100 Miles behind the leaders.
Hot Item -- 1989 Winner Paul Solon has moved down from 7th Place to 8th place.
Hot Item -- 1996 Winner Danny Chew has moved up from 10th place to 9th place.
Hot Item -- In the 70+ Division, Team Secure Horizons has extended their lead
over Team 70+ to about 4 Hours. It is interesting to note that these Great
Old Guys are now starting to pass more and more of the Solo Riders -- even though
they're old, doesn't mean they're slow!! Of course, the Old Guys get a break
in the action as they have four guys on their teams.
Interesting Item -- Team Secure Horizons has passed Paul Solon on the road.
Not bad for Four Old Guys!!
Hot Item -- Aldo Calandro received a 5 minute Time Penalty for Crew following
rider and a 15 minute Time Penalty for caravanning behind the rider.
Hot Item -- Unfortunately, Tomas Celta has dropped out due to Heat Exhaustion,
location was not given. He made it through Time Station 1.
Hot Item -- Unfortunately, Bob Kimber has dropped from the race outside of
Time Station 8 in Superior, Arizona. Reason was not given.
Technical Note -- As you may have found, this report is difficult to print
well. I have corrected the column headings. 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.
Specifically, if you are using Windows 95 and Microsoft Word, do the
following:
1. In your E-Mail program, click in the body of the E-Mail and press CTRL+A
to
"Select All" of this text. (I'm a keyboard kind of guy:) :) )
2. Press CTRL+C to "Copy" this text to the Windows Clipboard.
3. Press Start and Load Microsoft Word.
4. Change the Font to Courier and the Font Size to 11.
5. Click in the body of the empty document and press CTRL+V to Paste this E-
Mail into Microsoft Word. Voila: the columns should line up.
6. To Print these results:
A. ALT-F for the File Menu
B. U for Page Setup
C. Take the Left and Right Margin to the lowest numbers allowable. For
instance, try 0 and 0. Word will come back and ask you if you want these to
be fixed - say Yes and it will give you the minimum margins for your printer.
D. CTRL+P to Print
Now that wasn't so hard was it?
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
Chuck Bramwell
California Triple Crown Guy
RAAM Web Page Transcriptionist
RAAM Route Individual Standings (1998)
Created on Sunday, July 26, 1998 at 12:57 am (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 15 (Mayhill, NM) at 10:09:00
PM (EDT) on Saturday, July 25, 1998, 907.3 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 15 7/25/98 10:09 PM 57.90 907.30 376 15.7 0.0 0.00 1
161 Seana Hogan 14 7/25/98 9:56 PM 57.68 867.90 361 15.0 2
196 Tom Buckley 14 7/25/98 10:21 PM 58.10 867.90 359 14.9 3
39 Rob Kish 14 7/25/98 11:25 PM 59.17 867.90 352 14.7 4
223 Andreas Clavedets14 7/26/98 12:10 AM 59.92 867.90 348 14.5 5
229 Mark Patten 14 7/26/98 12:15 AM 60.00 867.90 347 14.5 6
97 Steve Born 14 7/26/98 12:26 AM 54.93 867.90 379 15.8 7
80 Paul Solon 13 7/25/98 7:55 PM 55.67 806.40 348 14.5 8
129 Danny Chew 13 7/25/98 8:43 PM 56.47 806.40 343 14.3 9
201 Wolfgang Fasching13 7/25/98 10:47 PM 58.53 806.40 331 13.8 10
222 Andrew Bohannon 13 7/25/98 11:29 PM 59.23 806.40 327 13.6 11
220 Rick Anderson 13 7/26/98 12:08 AM 59.88 806.40 323 13.5 12
231 Harold Trease 12 7/25/98 5:44 PM 53.48 747.10 335 14.0 13
210 Fabio Biasiolo 12 7/25/98 8:10 PM 55.92 747.10 321 13.4 14
225 Hansgeorg Haus 11 7/25/98 10:23 PM 58.13 686.40 283 11.8 15
226 Tim Kinkeade 11 7/25/98 10:38 PM 58.38 686.40 282 11.8 16
227 Charles Liskey 11 7/25/98 11:55 PM 59.67 686.40 276 11.5 17
219 Giovanni Zilioli 11 7/26/98 12:15 AM 60.00 686.40 275 11.4 18
114 Aldo Calandro 10 7/25/98 10:52 PM 58.62 610.70 250 10.4 19
224 Bernie Comeau 10 7/25/98 11:05 PM 58.83 610.70 249 10.4 20
230 Bob Kimber 8 7/25/98 6:10 PM 53.92 512.50 228 9.5 DNF
221 Tomas Celta 1 7/23/98 5:17 PM 5.03 83.96 400 16.7 DNF
Division: - 2 Man Relay Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM57 (Team Gustavo Rmo Franca) passed through station 16 (Roswell,
NM) at 9:20:00 PM (EDT) on Saturday, July 25, 1998, 1003.1 miles into the
race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo16 7/25/98 9:20 PM 57.08 1003.10 422 17.6 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 14
(Alamogordo, NM) at 12:32:00 AM (EDT) on Sunday, July 26, 1998, 867.9
miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 14 7/26/98 12:32 AM 60.28 867.90 346 14.4 0.0 0.00 2
TM36 Team 70+ 13 7/26/98 12:27 AM 60.20 806.40 321 13.4 3
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* TIME PENALTIES and NOTES -- All Solo Riders and Teams that Started Thursday
* With The Solo Riders
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* Listed in order of Rider's Last Name
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* Last Updated: 7/26/98 12:57 A.M. EST by Chuck Bramwell from each
* Rider's Web Page
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*
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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 = 35 min.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Crew penalty following riders(Lannie)Please verify
Time: 15 min. Reason: Caravannin(Lannie) Please verify
Time: 15 min. Reason: Failed to stop at stop sign RP#51, called in by
Mike
Roark
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Celta, Tomas
Date: 7/25/98 Time: 11:01 AM Note: Rider dropped out due to Heat
Exhaustion, location was not given.
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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
Date: 7/25/98 Time: 6:25 PM Note: Dropped out at RP 191. 6:10 PM 7/25/98.
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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
TOTAL PENALTIES = 15 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: Tracy Holmes called in at 3:30 am 7/25/98 Jockeying
for position rider could not pass.
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Solon, Paul
TOTAL PENALTIES = 5 min.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Tracy Holmes called in at 3:30 am 7/25/98 Not
displaying slow bicycle ahead triangle.
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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
TOTAL PENALTIES = 15 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: Tracy Holmes Headlight was not on bike before TS
#8
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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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