Hi RAAM Fans ...
"I'm going to Graceland, Gracelend ... Memphis, Tennesee"
Paul Simon
Gerry Tatrai rolled right into Graceland with this update. He has passed the
Mississippi River so Let The Real Race Begin!!
This one is dedicated to Bob Forney who had to abandon the Race today after
passing through Roswell, New Mexico at 4:47 AM, 1003 Miles into the Race. As
of this update, the reason is a UFO. Was he abducted by aliens at that hour
in Roswell? Carted off to a Space Ship and beamed up? Abducted by a secret
agent from the UFO Museum? We do know that he cranked a 19.9MPH split for 96 Miles
between TS15 and TS16, compared to Gerry Tatrai's 19.5MPH split for that same
stretch of road -- so Bob really was flying. And we hope that Bob is A-O.K.
Bob was cranking at a very good rate overall having a Total Average Speed up
to 15.5MPH before having to drop from the Race.
And a secondary dedication to Team Secure Horizons who has now passed Gerry
Tatrai on the road!! These 70 year old youngsters are a major inspiration to
all of us young whipper snappers having passed every Solo Rider one by one by
one!!
Anyway, back to the Race ...
Hot Item -- Gerry Tatrai, The Wonder From Down Under (Australia), continues to
lead the Solo RAAM. Rob Kish in 2nd Place continues to trail Gerry by about 7
hours at Time Station 34 (Brinkley, AR) which is 2,031 miles into the race.
Gerry is actually through TS 36 (Memphis, TN) which is 2,117 miles into the
race so Gerry has a 86 mile lead on Rob.
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 175 Miles
but his Total Average Speed has dropped dramatically from 15.0 to 14.3 MPH --
of course, Gerry is probably refilled his sleep tank. Don't forget: no one
except for Pete has broken the 15.0 barrier.
Hot Item -- Overall Position numbers on these reports are based on the
following
Race Categories:
Solo RAAM, Men and Women, Numbers 1 ... 20
2 Man Relay Team & 70 Plus Teams that started with Solo RAAM, Numbers 1 ... 3
Team RAAM and Human Powered Vehicle, Numbers 1 ... 11
Hot Item -- Last Year's Men's Champion Wolfgang Fasching has more than
recovered from his earlier problems as he has moved up from 10th to 9th to 6th
and is now in 3rd place. He has closed the gap on Rob Kish from 3 hours to 2
hours.
Extremely Hot Item -- The battle for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th place is
really HEATING UP with all of these cyclists separated by only 3 hours!!
Extremely Hot Item -- Danny Chew has dropped from 4th place to 6th place.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley has moved up from 6th to 5th place.
Hot Item -- Andreas Clavedetscher has dropped from 5th to 7th place.
Hot Item -- Steve Born continues in 11th place.
Hot Item -- Seana Hogan has moved back up from 16th to 14th place and has
passed Giovanni Zilioli and Tim Kinkeade. Unfortunately, Seana had to check
into a hospital but is now back on the road and cranked out a 16 MPH split
from TS 24 to TS 25 which is 31 miles. So Seana is rolling again and that's good news.
Hot Item -- I was side tracked in my project to upload my RAAM Start Line
Photos. Instead, I spent the time to put all of these updates online so you
can easily go back and see anything you missed. Go to:
http://www.CalTripleCrown.com
then to 1998 Race Across America Hot Item Updates.
I have added the following at www.CalTripleCrown.com:
1. On the Home Page, added a link to the 1998 Race Across America Hot Item
Updates. This new Web Page includes a photo of Gerry Tatrai taken by Mike
Gladu as he lead the Race Across America going into Celina, Texas on 7/27/98
at 9:30 P.M. Mike graciously allowed me to copy his most excellent work to
this page.
2. Hot Item Updates that are currently available include blow by blow reports
of the Race Across America taken at the following times along with analysis
reports:
7/24/98 1:06 A.M
7/24/98 9:44 A.M.
How Fast Do RAAM Riders Ride A Century on RAAM?
7/24/98 11:26 P.M.
7/25/98 10:03 A.M
How Fast Do RAAM Riders Ride A Double Century on RAAM?
Fireworks for Tatrai & Hogan at New Mexico & Team RAAM Ready
Can Gerry Tatrai Match Pete Penseyre's Average Speed Record?
7/26/98 12:57 A.M.
Team Race Across America Start and 80 Miles Per Hour!
7/27/98 12:36 A.M.
7/27/98 4:32 P.M
7/28/98 2:18 A.M
The Next Rest Stop, Dairy Queens, and RAAM 7/28/98 2:52 P.M.
If you lost or misplaced one of the above reports, you can go to
www.CalTripleCrown.com and check it out again.
Wondering how that Cyclist or Team got to where they are? Go to
www.CalTripleCrown.com and you can get the answer to that and many other
questions you probably weren't even asking. :) :)
And yes, columns line up on these reports so they are easy to read.
Don't forget Nick's masterpiece photos 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 continues in 9th place.
Andreas Clavedetscher from Liechenstein has dropped back from 5th to 7th
place.
Andrew Bohannon from Sunnyvale, California continues in 10th place.
Rick Anderson from Woodside, California continues in 13th place.
Hansgeorg Haus from Permasens, Germany, has moved back from 17th to 16th
place.
Tim Kinkeade from Moscow, Idaho has dropped back from 15th to 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 extended their lead
over Team 70+ from 9 to 10 Hours.
Interesting Item -- Team Secure Horizons has now passed all of the Solo Riders
including Tatrai. Can thses 70 year old guys roll into Savannah before those
Solo Young Whipper Snappers? (Go Guido and buddies)
Hot Item -- Team Action Sports beat Team Pacificare to Time Station 29 by 21
minutes. 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 22.5 MPH, up from the 22.4 MPH on the last update.
Hot Item -- Team Gustavo Rmo Franca is a two man Team from Brazil that just
continues to Rock and Roll. Their Total Average Speed is 16.9 and they are
almost in Georgia, having covered 2497 Miles.
Hot Item -- Wolfgang Fasching was given a warning for excess time next to pace
vehicle.
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 Wednesday, July 29, 1998 at 5:10 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 36 (Memphis, TN) at 3:58:00
PM (EDT) on Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 2117.46 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 36 7/29/98 3:58 PM 147.72 2117.46 344 14.3 0.0 0.00 1
39 Rob Kish 34 7/29/98 3:10 PM 146.92 2031.05 332 13.8 2
201 Wolfgang Fasching33 7/29/98 10:56 AM 142.68 1942.10 327 13.6 3
210 Fabio Biasiolo 33 7/29/98 12:11 PM 143.93 1942.10 324 13.5 4
196 Tom Buckley 33 7/29/98 12:51 PM 144.60 1942.10 322 13.4 5
129 Danny Chew 33 7/29/98 1:19 PM 145.07 1942.10 321 13.4 6
223 Andreas Clavedets33 7/29/98 1:55 PM 145.67 1942.10 320 13.3 7
229 Mark Patten 32 7/29/98 3:14 PM 146.98 1898.35 310 12.9 8
231 Harold Trease 32 7/29/98 3:15 PM 147.00 1898.35 310 12.9 9
222 Andrew Bohannon 32 7/29/98 4:34 PM 148.32 1898.35 307 12.8 10
97 Steve Born 30 7/29/98 9:40 AM 141.42 1819.75 309 12.9 11
80 Paul Solon 30 7/29/98 2:35 PM 146.33 1819.75 298 12.4 12
220 Rick Anderson 30 7/29/98 4:33 PM 148.30 1819.75 294 12.3 13
161 Seana Hogan 28 7/29/98 2:15 PM 146.00 1718.75 283 11.8 14
219 Giovanni Zilioli 28 7/29/98 3:05 PM 146.83 1718.75 281 11.7 15
225 Hansgeorg Haus 27 7/29/98 10:40 AM 142.42 1668.25 281 11.7 16
226 Tim Kinkeade 27 7/29/98 2:25 PM 146.17 1668.25 274 11.4 17
227 Charles Liskey 24 7/29/98 3:20 PM 147.08 1523.20 249 10.4 18
224 Bernie Comeau 22 7/29/98 4:30 PM 148.25 1438.70 233 9.7 19
114 Aldo Calandro 20 7/29/98 1:32 PM 145.28 1328.60 219 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 46
(Chattanooga, TN) at 4:22:00 PM (EDT) on Wednesday, July 29, 1998,
2497.24 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo46 7/29/98 4:22 PM 148.12 2497.24 405 16.9 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Teams
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 36
(Memphis, TN) at 1:57:00 PM (EDT) on Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 2117.46
miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 36 7/29/98 1:57 PM 145.70 2117.46 349 14.5 0.0 0.00 2
TM36 Team 70+ 33 7/29/98 11:53 AM 143.63 1942.10 325 13.5 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: 7/29/98 10:41 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.
Date: 7/28/98 Time: 2:45 AM Note: Today is his 44th Birthday--Happy
Birthday
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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
TOTAL PENALTIES = 0 min.
Time: 0 min. Reason: Warning given by Tracie Holmes for excess time next
to pace vehicle
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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 28 (Talco, TX) at
4:03:00 PM (EDT) on Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 1718.75 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM37 Team Action Spor28 7/29/98 4:03 PM 76.05 1718.75 542 22.6 0.0 0.00 1
TM9 Team Pacificcare 28 7/29/98 4:35 PM 76.58 1718.75 539 22.4 0.0 0.53 2
TM58 Team Austria 25 7/29/98 4:00 PM 76.00 1554.10 491 20.4 3
TM42 Team Colorado 23 7/29/98 3:10 PM 75.17 1477.00 472 19.6 4
TM61 Team Coast Guard22 7/29/98 2:58 PM 74.97 1438.70 461 19.2 5
TM60 Team Adventure C21 7/29/98 3:53 PM 75.88 1376.30 435 18.1 6
TM56 Team Tyler 21 7/29/98 4:37 PM 76.62 1376.30 431 18.0 7
TM53 Team Men In Moti20 7/29/98 3:40 PM 75.67 1328.60 421 17.6 8
TM54 Team New York 19 7/29/98 3:16 PM 75.27 1252.10 399 16.6 9
TM59 Team Jimmy 19 7/29/98 4:43 PM 76.72 1252.10 392 16.3 10
Division: Human-Powered Vehicle
Division Leader:
Rider #H1 (Bob Forney) passed through station 16 (Roswell, NM) at 4:47:00
AM (EDT) on Wednesday, July 29, 1998, 1003.1 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
H1 Bob Forney 16 7/29/98 4:47 AM 64.78 1003.10 372 15.5 0.0 0.00 DNF
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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: 7/29/98 10:41 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 = 15 min.
Time: 5 min. Reason: Reported by Mike Shermer failed to stop at stop sign
at Holtville just after TS 3
Time: 10 min. Reason: Reported by Bruce Hartley. Urinating in public. RP
309 8:10 AM 7/28/98.
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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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