Hi RAAM Fans ...
Hot Item -- Gerry Tatrai, The Wonder From Down Under (Australia), continues to
lead the Solo RAAM. Rob Kish in 2nd Place has fallen back behind Gerry from
50 Minutes to now 3 Hours and 21 Minutes at Time Station 25 (Slidell, TX) which
is 1,554 miles into the race.
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 163 Miles and he
has increased his Total Average Speed from 15.0 to 15.1!!
Hot Item -- Overall Position numbers are wrong on the Web Site again. I have
corrected these numbers on this report.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley continues to 3rd place, trailing Rob Kish by about 5
hours.
Extremely Hot Item -- Danny Chew continues his assault. The 1996 Winner has
moved up from 9th to 5th to 4th place. He follows Tom Buckley by 1:24.
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. He follows Andreas by about an hour.
Hot Item -- Steve Born has moved up from 11th place to 9th place, passing
Andrew and Harold. It's real tight in that area.
Hot Item -- Good news: Seana Hogan is back rolling again and continues in 13th
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? (I was side tracked by work and the Tour de France
today -- amazing battle in the Alps!! Go Julich!!)
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 continues in 8th place.
Harold Trease from Jemez Springs, New Mexico has dropped from 9th to 11th
place.
Andreas Clavedetscher from Liechenstein continues in 5th place.
Andrew Bohannon from Sunnyvale, California continues in 10th place.
Rick Anderson from Woodside, California continues in 14th place.
Hansgeorg Haus from Permasens, Germany, moved up from 16th to 15th 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 continues in 12th place.
Hot Item -- In the 70+ Division, Team Secure Horizons has increased their lead
over Team 70+ from 6 Hours to nearly 8 Hours -- another big jump. 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!! They follow Rob Kish by less than one hour.
Hot Item -- In a major event, Team Action Sports beat Team Pacificare to Time
Station 13 by 7 minutes. I'm not sure Big Joe Peterson and the Pacificare
guys are going to like that :) :) 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, the
Pacificare guys are running at a Total Average Speed of 22.2 MPH.
Hot Item -- Bob Forney's Total Average Speed has dropped considerably from
20.0 MPH to 17.2 MPH as he is climbing up to Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He is still
ahead of 2 Teams that have the luxury of swapping out dead riders with fresh
ones. Watch out for Bob going down from Cloudcraft from TS14 to TS16 -- he's
going to FLY!!
Hot Item -- Bob Forney received a reduction from the previously reported 15
minute Time Penalty to a 10 Minute Time Penalty for running the Stop Sign at
TS2.
Hot Item -- Team Action Sports received a 5 minute Time Penalty for parking on
the shoulder of the freeway and forcing the rider onto the freeway. They had
received a prior warning for that same problem.
Technical Note -- As you may have found, this report is difficult to print
well. In the prior few E-Mails, there are instructions on how to print it with nice
columns. Let me know if you need these instructions again.
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 Tuesday, July 28, 1998 at 2:18 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 26 (Farmersville, TX) at
12:55:00 AM (EDT) on Tuesday, July 28, 1998, 1640 miles into the race
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 26 7/28/98 12:55 AM 108.67 1640.00 362 15.1 0.0 0.00 1
39 Rob Kish 25 7/27/98 10:36 PM 106.35 1554.10 351 14.6 2
196 Tom Buckley 24 7/27/98 11:42 PM 107.45 1523.20 340 14.2 3
129 Danny Chew 23 7/27/98 9:39 PM 105.40 1477.00 336 14.0 4
223 Andreas Clavedets23 7/27/98 10:50 PM 106.58 1477.00 333 13.9 5
201 Wolfgang Fasching23 7/27/98 11:47 PM 107.53 1477.00 330 13.7 6
210 Fabio Biasiolo 22 7/27/98 10:58 PM 106.72 1438.70 324 13.5 7
229 Mark Patten 22 7/28/98 12:36 AM 108.35 1438.70 319 13.3 8
97 Steve Born 22 7/28/98 12:59 AM 108.73 1438.70 318 13.2 9
222 Andrew Bohannon 21 7/27/98 8:07 PM 103.87 1376.30 318 13.3 10
231 Harold Trease 21 7/27/98 8:21 PM 104.10 1376.30 317 13.2 11
80 Paul Solon 21 7/27/98 9:47 PM 105.53 1376.30 313 13.0 12
161 Seana Hogan 20 7/27/98 6:34 PM 102.32 1328.60 312 13.0 13
220 Rick Anderson 20 7/28/98 12:53 AM 108.63 1328.60 294 12.2 14
225 Hansgeorg Haus 19 7/27/98 10:17 PM 106.03 1252.10 283 11.8 15
219 Giovanni Zilioli 19 7/27/98 10:34 PM 106.32 1252.10 283 11.8 16
226 Tim Kinkeade 19 7/27/98 11:47 PM 107.53 1252.10 279 11.6 17
227 Charles Liskey 18 7/27/98 11:49 PM 107.57 1146.80 256 10.7 18
224 Bernie Comeau 16 7/27/98 9:55 PM 105.67 1003.10 228 9.5 19
114 Aldo Calandro 16 7/27/98 10:35 PM 106.33 1003.10 226 9.4 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 31
(Camden, AR) at 11:14:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 1898.35 miles
into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo31 7/27/98 11:14 PM 106.98 1898.35 426 17.7 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Team
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 25
(Slidell, TX) at 11:22:00 PM (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 1998, 1554.1 miles into
the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 25 7/27/98 11:22 PM 107.12 1554.10 348 14.5 0.0 0.00 4
TM36 Team 70+ 22 7/27/98 10:33 PM 106.30 1438.70 325 13.5 9
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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: 7/28/98 2:18 A.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 #TM37 (Team Action Sports) passed through station 13 (Las Cruces,
NM) at 12:13:00 AM (EDT) on Tuesday, July 28, 1998, 806.4 miles into the
race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM37 Team Action Spor13 7/28/98 12:13 AM 36.22 806.40 534 22.3 0.0 0.00 1
TM9 Team Pacificcare 13 7/28/98 12:20 AM 36.33 806.40 533 22.2 0.0 0.12 2
TM58 Team Austria 11 7/27/98 10:00 PM 34.00 686.40 485 20.2 3
TM42 Team Colorado 11 7/27/98 11:21 PM 35.35 686.40 466 19.4 4
TM61 Team Coast Guard11 7/27/98 11:47 PM 35.78 686.40 460 19.2 5
TM56 Team Tyler 10 7/27/98 10:27 PM 34.45 610.70 425 17.7 6
TM60 Team Adventure 10 7/27/98 11:00 PM 35.00 610.70 419 17.4 7
TM53 Team Men In Moti10 7/27/98 11:20 PM 35.33 610.70 415 17.3 8
TM54 Team New York 10 7/28/98 12:28 AM 36.47 610.70 402 16.7 10
TM59 Team Jimmy 9 7/27/98 9:59 PM 33.98 557.30 394 16.4 11
Division: Human-Powered Vehicle
Division Leader:
Rider #H1 (Bob Forney) passed through station 10 (Safford, AZ) at 11:30:00
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
H1 Bob Forney 10 7/27/98 11:30 PM 35.50 610.70 413 17.2 0.0 0.00 9
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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: 7/28/98 2:18 A.M. EST by Chuck Bramwell from each
* Rider's Web Page
*
*
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Forney, Bob
TOTAL PENALTIES = 15 min.
Time: 10 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
TOTAL PENALTIES = 5 min.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Penalty by Mike Shermer Parking on shoulder of
freeway and forcing the rider into the lane of traffic on the freeway. Between RP 271
& 272
Time: 0 min. Reason: WARNING by Mike Shermer Parking on shoulder of
freeway and forcing the rider into the lane of traffic on the freeway
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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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