Hi RAAM Fans ...
Hot Item -- Gerry Tatrai, The Wonder From Down Under (Australia), continues to
lead the Solo RAAM. And Rob Kish in 2nd Place only trails Gerry by 50 Minutes
at Time Station 23 (Graham, TX) which is 1,477 miles into the race.
Hot Item -- Seana Hogan continues to fall -- this time from 7th place down to
13th place.
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 15.4 MPH. Since the last update, Gerry has ridden another 225 Miles but
his Total Average Speed has dropped significantly from 15.6 to 15.0. Seana's
Total Average Speed has dropped from 15.0 MPH down to 14.2 on the last report down
to 13.0 on this report. Could it be the extreme heat in Texas? Headwinds?
Hot Item -- Overall Position numbers are wrong on the Web Site again, mixing
the Teams that started Sunday with the Solo Riders. I have corrected these
numbers on this report.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley continues to 3rd place, trailing Gerry Tatrai by 3:25.
Extremely Hot Item -- Rob Kish is now well within striking distance to take
over the 1st place of this Solo RAAM. He moved up from 9th Place to 4th Place then
into 2nd place.
Extremely Hot Item -- Danny Chew continues his assault. The 1996 Winner has
moved up from 9th to 5th place and has now passed Andreas for 4th Place. Look
out for Danny.
Extremely Hot Item -- Last Year's Men's Champion Wolfgang Fasching continues
to be recovering from his earlier problems as he has moved up from 10th to 9th
and is now in 6th place!!
Hot Item -- Steve Born has fallen from 8th place to 11th place.
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. No new photos since my last
update -- but maybe tomorrow?
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 has dropped from 6th place to 8th
place.
Harold Trease from Jemez Springs, New Mexico has moved from 13th to 10th place
and is now in 9th place.
Andreas Clavedetscher from Liechenstein has dropped from 4th back to 5th
place.
Andrew Bohannon from Sunnyvale, California has moved up from 12th place to
10th place.
Rick Anderson from Woodside, California continues in 14th place.
Hansgeorg Haus from Permasens, Germany, continues in 16th place.
Tim Kinkeade from Moscow, Idaho continues in 17th place.
Charlie Liskey from Somis, California continues in 18th place.
Bernie Comeau from Ottawa, Canada continues in 19th place.
Hot Item -- 1989 Winner Paul Solon has moved from 13th up to 12th place.
Hot Item -- In the 70+ Division, Team Secure Horizons has increased their lead
over Team 70+ from 4 Hours to nearly 6 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 now passed all of the Solo Riders
except for the top 2!! These young 70 year olds are Rocking!!
Hot Item -- Team Pacificare leads the Team RAAM as expected. They have
increased their lead over Team Action Sports from 6 minutes to 26 minutes at
TS10, 610 Miles into the Race. They need a Total Average Speed of over 23.0
in order to beat the Team Kern Wheelmen's 1995 Record and at this point, they are
running at a Total Average Speed of 22.6 MPH.
Hot Item -- Bob Forney's Total Average Speed is 20.0 MPH. He is still ahead
of 6 Teams that have the luxury of swapping out dead riders with fresh ones.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley received a credit of 11 minutes for being detained for
11 minutes by the police.
Hot Item -- Bob Forney received a 5 minute Time Penalty at Holtville just
after TS 3 -- no details were given.
Hot Item -- Team Austria received a 5 minute Time Penalty for failing to stop
at stop sign at Holtville just after TS 3.
Hot Item -- Team New York received a Warning @ Route Point 84 due to a Pace
Vehicle parked in driving lane during transition.
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 Monday, July 27, 1998 at 4:32 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 23 (Graham, TX) at 2:25:00
PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 1477 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 23 7/27/98 2:25 PM 98.17 1477.00 361 15.0 0.0 0.00 1
39 Rob Kish 23 7/27/98 3:15 PM 99.00 1477.00 358 14.9 0.0 0.83 2
196 Tom Buckley 21 7/27/98 12:20 PM 96.08 1376.30 344 14.3 3
129 Danny Chew 21 7/27/98 1:23 PM 97.13 1376.30 340 14.2 4
223 Andreas Clavedets21 7/27/98 2:10 PM 97.92 1376.30 337 14.1 5
201 Wolfgang Fasching20 7/27/98 1:14 PM 96.98 1328.60 329 13.7 6
210 Fabio Biasiolo 20 7/27/98 2:20 PM 98.08 1328.60 325 13.5 7
229 Mark Patten 20 7/27/98 2:27 PM 98.20 1328.60 325 13.5 8
231 Harold Trease 20 7/27/98 3:57 PM 99.70 1328.60 320 13.3 9
222 Andrew Bohannon 20 7/27/98 4:16 PM 100.02 1328.60 319 13.3 10
97 Steve Born 20 7/27/98 4:17 PM 100.03 1328.60 319 13.3 11
80 Paul Solon 19 7/27/98 8:42 AM 92.45 1252.10 325 13.5 12
161 Seana Hogan 19 7/27/98 12:56 PM 96.68 1252.10 311 13.0 13
220 Rick Anderson 18 7/27/98 1:15 PM 97.00 1146.80 284 11.8 14
219 Giovanni Zilioli 18 7/27/98 3:30 PM 99.25 1146.80 277 11.6 15
225 Hansgeorg Haus 18 7/27/98 4:14 PM 99.98 1146.80 275 11.5 16
226 Tim Kinkeade 17 7/27/98 12:03 PM 95.80 1094.50 274 11.4 17
227 Charles Liskey 16 7/27/98 1:23 PM 97.13 1003.10 248 10.3 18
224 Bernie Comeau 15 7/27/98 1:32 PM 97.28 907.30 224 9.3 19
114 Aldo Calandro 15 7/27/98 3:51 PM 99.60 907.30 219 9.1 20
**** Did Not Finish ****
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 28 (Talco,
TX) at 2:33:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 1718.75 miles into the
race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo28 7/27/98 2:33 PM 98.30 1718.75 420 17.5 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 22
(Throckmorton, TX) at 2:41:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 1438.7
miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 22 7/27/98 2:41 PM 98.43 1438.70 351 14.6 0.0 0.00 2
TM36 Team 70+ 20 7/27/98 1:20 PM 97.08 1328.60 328 13.7 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: 7/27/98 4:32 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
Date: 7/26/98 Time: 10:56 AM
Note: 7/25/98 11:27 PM 7 milesafter RP 309. Detained 11 minutes by
police.
Date: 7/27/98 Time: 2:18 AM Note: Per Mike Shermer to receive a credit of
11 minutes for being detained for 11 minutes by the police.
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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
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
TOTAL PENALTIES = 20 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: Caravanning vehicles behind rider on narrow road,
given by Lannie Smith
Time: 5 min. Reason: Crew penalty for following rider in Arizona during
day time, given by Lannie Smith
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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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* DIVISION REPORT - Team Divisions
*
*
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Division: Team RAAM
Division Leader:
Rider #TM9 (Team Pacificcare) passed through station 10 (Safford, AZ) at
2:59:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 610.7 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM9 Team Pacificcare 10 7/27/98 2:59 PM 26.98 610.70 543 22.6 0.0 0.00 1
TM37 Team Action Spor10 7/27/98 3:25 PM 27.42 610.70 535 22.3 0.0 0.43 2
TM58 Team Austria 9 7/27/98 3:10 PM 27.17 557.30 492 20.5 3
TM42 Team Colorado 9 7/27/98 4:18 PM 28.30 557.30 473 19.7 4
TM61 Team Coast Guard 8 7/27/98 1:49 PM 25.82 512.50 476 19.9 5
TM56 Team Tyler 7 7/27/98 1:06 PM 25.10 450.00 430 17.9 7
TM53 Team Men In Motio7 7/27/98 1:31 PM 25.52 450.00 423 17.6 8
TM60 Team Adventure Cy7 7/27/98 1:39 PM 25.65 450.00 421 17.5 9
TM54 Team New York 7 7/27/98 2:17 PM 26.28 450.00 411 17.1 10
TM59 Team Jimmy 7 7/27/98 3:17 PM 27.28 450.00 396 16.5 11
Division: Human-Powered Vehicle
Division Leader:
Rider #H1 (Bob Forney) passed through station 7 (Casa Grande, AZ) at
10:27:00 AM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 450 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
H1 Bob Forney 7 7/27/98 10:27 AM 22.45 450.00 481 20.0 0.0 0.00 6
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*
*
* TIME PENALTIES and NOTES -- All Teams and Bob Forney who Started Sunday
*
* Listed in order of Rider's Last Name
*
* Last Updated: 7/27/98 4:32 P.M. EST by Chuck Bramwell from each
* Rider's Web Page
*
*
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Forney, Bob
TOTAL PENALTIES = 20 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: 7/26/98 @ 6:40 PM TS 2. Ran Stop Sign. Reported by
Mike Shermer.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Reported by Mike Shermer @ Holtville just after TS
3 a 5min penalty no details
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Team Action Sports
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Adventure Cycles
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Austria
TOTAL PENALTIES = 5 min.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Reported by Mike Shermer failed to stop at stop sign
at Holtville just after TS 3
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Team Coast Guard
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Colorado
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Jimmy
TOTAL PENALTIES = 15 min.
Time: 15 min. Reason: 7/26/98 Run Stop Sign @ Start. Reported by Kurt.
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Team Men in Motion
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team New York
TOTAL PENALTIES = 0 min.
Time: 0 min. Reason: (Warning) From Booth Hartley Team 54 @ Route Point
84 Pace Vehicle parked in driving lane during transition. Warning only.
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Team Pacificcare
No Notes or Time Penalties
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Team Tyler
No Notes or Time Penalties
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