Hi RAAM Fans ...
'Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,
Let inspired figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave Helios wake up your steeds,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.
The Moody Blues
Days of Future Passed
Here's the analysis from the 8/1/98 1:34 P.M. Web Site report. I'm still
getting caught up!! There's still lots of racing going on out there after all
these fast guys are in there. In addition, the following is the breakdown of
Medal Awards:
Solo Division:
Gold Medal: 0-48 Hours behind overall winner
Silver Medal: 48-60 Hours behind overall winner
Bronze Medal: 60-72 Hours behind oveall winner
Gold RAAM Ring: All first time Official Finishers in before 72 Hours
Ultrium RAAM Ring: All Officical Finishers in before 72 Hours even if they
already have a RAAM ring from previous races
Team Division:
Under Age 50:
Gold Medal: 0-12 Hours behind overall winner
Silver Medal: 12-24 Hours behind overall winner
Bronze Medal: 24-36 Hours behind overall winner
Ultrium RAAM Ring: All first time Official Finishers in before 36 Hours
Grand Masters 70+:
Gold Medal: 0-60 Hours behind overall winner
Silver Medal: 60-72 Hours behind overall winner
Bronze Medal: 72-96 Hours behind overall winner
Ultrium RAAM Ring: All first time Official Finishers in before 96 Hours
Congratulations to all Finishers!!
1998 Race Across America Finishers List
Total
Solo Division Medal Av. Speed
1. Gerry Tatrai 8 Days, 12 Hours, 22 Minutes Gold 14.2
2. Wolfgang Fasching 8 Days, 17 Hours, 26 Minutes Gold 13.9
3. Rob Kish 8 Days, 20 Hours, 22 Minutes Gold 13.7
4. Danny Chew TBD Gold 13.5
Team Division: 70 Plus Teams
1. Team Secure Horizons / SCOR 8 Days, 9 Hours, 15 Minutes Gold 14.4
Team Division: 2 Man Relay Team
1. Team Gustavo Rmo Franco 7 Days, 9 hours, 56 minutes Gold 16.3
Team Division
1. Team Action Sports 5 Days 11 Hours 2 Minutes Gold 22.1
2. Team Pacificcare 5 Days 11 Hours 24 Minutes Gold 22.1
3. Team Austria TBD TBD 20.3
TBD = To Be Determined
This year, Lon Haldeman is currently on the RAAM Route having started a group of
PAC Tour RAAM Riders who are riding 190 Miles a day for 15 days. Riders
completing the entire tour will qualify for RAAM next year. They started on
July 18th so they had a 5 day head start on the Solo RAAM Riders. As of now,
Lon and his group should be in Savannah celebrating with the RAAM Riders!!
Anyway, back to the 1998 Race ...
Extremely Hot Item -- Team Action Sports, Team Pacificcare, and Team Austria
have finished the Race!! Team Action Sports are now enjoying the fruits of all
of their hard work:
--Ensure will be awarding $10,000 to the 1st Place Team.
--An Ultrium (Special Stainless Steel) Race Across America Ring.
--A Gold RAAM Medallion
--A Gold Esquire Sports Watch
--United States Plaque handmade by Lon Haldeman
--Free entry to the Furnace Creek 508 by Chris Kostman
--Free entry to Ironbutt
Hot Item -- Team Action Sports beat Team Pacificcare to Time Station 54 by 55
minutes. However, the Team Pacificare really turned on the afterburners from TS
54 to the finish at TS 56, dropping the gap all the way down to 22 minutes --
taking 33 minutes out of the leaders!! Both teams finished with an incredible
22.1 MPH!! Ensure will award $5,000 to Team Pacificcare. In addition, they
will receive Ultrium RAAM Rings, Gold RAAM Medallions, and Gold Esquire Sports
Watches.
Hot Item -- Team Austria finished behind Team Pacificare by about 12 hours in
3rd place. On the last report, they had a 5 hour lead over Team Colorado who is
in 4th place but this has widened all the way out to 17 hours on this report!!??
Ensure will award $3,000 to the 3rd Place Team, Team Austria. In addition, they
will receive Ultrium RAAM Rings, Gold RAAM Medallions, and Gold Esquire Sports
Watches.
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 to 3rd to
2nd to 3rd and back to 2nd place. Nick reports: "Perhaps the most inspiring
story of RAAM occurred to Wolfgang Fasching, the defending champion from
Austria. With 50 miles to go, Fasching clipped a road reflector and hit the
pavement, breaking his clavicle. Undaunted, the stoic Austrian re-mounted his
bike (very carefully) and rode one-handed the remaining 50 miles to Savannah.
His courage preserved for him a second-place finish. In great pain, and with
large areas of skin torn from the fall, Fasching rode confidently through the
cobbles of River Street right to the Finish Line, waving his country's flag
proudly."
But that's not all to the story: Wolfgang experienced some MAJOR problems in the
Arizona desert. Wolfgang was the first solo rider to pass through TS 2. But in
just 10 miles past Indio, Wolfgang was experiencing some major heat related
problems. Looking back over the reports, on the morning of Day 2 of RAAM,
Wolfgang was all the way back in 21st Place!! This put him 6 Hours behind Gerry
Tatrai at Time Station 3.
Talk about a come from behind story. On the next report he was all the way up
to 10th place then 9th then 6th then 3rd then 2nd then 3rd then 2nd. In this
Race, Wolfgang then got himself back together and passed every single rider on
the road with the exception of Gerry Tatrai!! Ensure awarded Wolfgang $5,000
for his 2nd Place Finish. In addition, he will receive an Ultrium RAAM Ring, a
Gold RAAM Medallion, and an Esquire Gold Sports Watch.
Hot Item -- Rob Kish finished behind Wolfgang by 2 and 1/2 hours. Ensure
awarded Rob $2,000 for his 3rd Place Finish. In addition, he will receive an
Ultrium RAAM Ring, a Gold RAAM Medallion, and an Esquire Gold Sports Watch.
Hot Item -- Danny Chew finished in 4th place. The gap between Rob and Danny
extended from 47 minutes on the last report to about 2 hours by the Finish. He
will receive a Ultrium RAAM Ring, a Gold RAAM Medallion, and an Esquire Gold
Sports Watch.
Hot Item -- Tom Buckley continues in 7th place.
Hot Item -- Fabio Biasiolo was passed by Andreas and dropped from 5th to 6th
place.
Hot Item -- Andreas Clavedetscher passed Fabio and climbed from 6th to 5th
place.
Hot Item -- Steve Born continues in 8th place.
Hot Item -- Seana Hogan continues in 15th place. Ensure will be awarding
$10,000 to the 1st place Woman so if Seana makes it to Savannah, she will win
that award.
Hot Item -- Unfortunately, Hansgeorg Haus from Permasens, Germany, has dropped
from the Race. At 8/1/98 3:00 AM, it was reported that he DNF'd @ RP932. The
reason: Need to catch plane. Hansgeorg rode 2,295 Miles in 9 days which is a
remarkable achievement in itself!!
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.
Also, you can order the RAAM Videos from there!!
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 11th place.
Harold Trease from Jemez Springs, New Mexico continues in 10th place.
Andreas Clavedetscher from Liechenstein has moved up to 5th place.
Andrew Bohannon from Sunnyvale, California continues in 9th place.
Rick Anderson from Woodside, California continues in 13th place.
Tim Kinkeade from Moscow, Idaho has moved up from 17th to 16th place, due to the
DNF of Hansgeorg.
Charlie Liskey from Somis, California has moved up from 18th to 17th place, due
to the DNF of Hansgeorg.
Hot Item -- 1989 Winner Paul Solon continues in 12th place.
Hot Item -- In the 70+ Division, Team 70+ continue on their same pace, following
Team Secure Horizons by 15 Hours.
All Rider Web pages were searched for Notes and Time Penalties and the following
was found:
Hot Item -- Team Action Sports received a 10 minutes Time Penalty for failing to
call their Time Station times in a timely manner.
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
The 1993 Race Across America video was shown on the Prime Network and it has all
of the great Gerry Tatrai moments as well as the greatest duel and the closest
finish in the history of the race: Seana Hogan v. Muffy Ritz. It also shows a
dramatic team event as 8 teams battle each other in lightning pace across
America, testing new strategies and tactics.
To order your video, go to:
http://www.CalTripleCrown.com
then to the 1998 Race Across America Hot Items Updates.
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.
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 Saturday, August 1, 1998 at 1:34 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 56 (Savannah, GA) at
12:19:00 AM (EDT) on Saturday, August 1, 1998, 2906.69 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
150 Gerry Tatrai 56 8/1/98 12:19 AM 204.07 2906.69 342 14.2 0.0 0.00 1
201 Wolfgang Fasching56 8/1/98 6:01 AM 209.77 2906.69 333 13.9 0.0 5.70 2
39 Rob Kish 56 8/1/98 8:37 AM 212.37 2906.69 328 13.7 0.0 8.30 3
129 Danny Chew 56 8/1/98 11:29 AM 215.23 2906.69 324 13.5 0.011.17 4
223 Andreas Clavedets52 8/1/98 11:14 AM 214.98 2794.23 312 13.0 5
210 Fabio Biasiolo 52 8/1/98 11:20 AM 215.08 2794.23 312 13.0 6
196 Tom Buckley 51 8/1/98 12:35 PM 216.33 2756.98 306 12.7 7
97 Steve Born 50 8/1/98 11:16 AM 215.02 2681.63 299 12.5 8
222 Andrew Bohannon 49 8/1/98 12:09 PM 215.90 2635.93 293 12.2 9
231 Harold Trease 49 8/1/98 12:28 PM 216.22 2635.93 293 12.2 10
229 Mark Patten 48 8/1/98 12:01 PM 215.77 2602.83 290 12.1 11
80 Paul Solon 46 8/1/98 9:10 AM 212.92 2497.24 281 11.7 12
220 Rick Anderson 46 8/1/98 9:31 AM 213.27 2497.24 281 11.7 13
219 Giovanni Zilioli 44 8/1/98 9:55 AM 213.67 2432.99 273 11.4 14
161 Seana Hogan 43 8/1/98 5:11 AM 208.93 2372.86 273 11.4 15
226 Tim Kinkeade 41 8/1/98 10:30 AM 214.25 2295.16 257 10.7 16
227 Charles Liskey 37 8/1/98 9:20 AM 213.08 2163.29 244 10.2 17
114 Aldo Calandro 32 8/1/98 11:15 AM 215.00 1898.35 212 8.8 18
**** Did Not Finish ****
225 Hansgeorg Haus 41 8/1/98 1:22 AM 205.12 2295.16 269 11.2 DNF
224 Bernie Comeau 30 7/31/98 3:55 AM 183.67 1819.75 238 9.9 DNF
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 56
(Savannah, GA) at 10:15:00 PM (EDT) on Thursday, July 30, 1998, 2906.69
miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM57 Team Gustavo Rmo56 7/30/98 10:15 PM 178.00 2906.69 392 16.3 0.0 0.00 1
Division: - 70 Plus Teams
Division Leader:
Rider #TM19 (Team Secure Horizons/SCOR) passed through station 56
(Savannah, GA) at 9:31:00 PM (EDT) on Friday, July 31, 1998, 2906.69 miles
into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM19 Team Secure 56 7/31/98 9:31 PM 201.27 2906.69 347 14.4 0.0 0.00 2
TM36 Team 70+ 55 8/1/98 12:23 PM 216.13 2896.12 322 13.4 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: 7/31/98 10:55 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.
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
NOTES
Date: 7/31/98 Time: 1:06 PM Note: Rider dropped due to extreem pain
exhaustion
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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
NOTES
Date: 7/31/98 Time: 12:19 AM Note: Rider 201 will get a 20 minute credit,
given by Michael Shermer
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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
NOTES Date: 8/1/98 Time: 3:00 AM
Note: DNF @ RP932. Need to catch plane.
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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
NOTES
Date: 7/30/98 Time: 11:04 PM
Note: Team 57 finish time is, 7 Days 10 hours
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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
NOTES
Date: 7/31/98 Time: 9:51 PM Note: Finish time is: 8 Days, 9 Hours, 13
Minutes
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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 56 (Savannah, GA)
at 11:02:00 PM (EDT) on Friday, July 31, 1998, 2906.69 miles into the race.
Total Total Ave Ave Mi Hr.
Rider Station Time/Day Hrs. Mile Mi/Day MPH Back Back
TM37 Team Action Spor56 7/31/98 11:02 PM 131.28 2906.69 531 22.1 0.0 0.00 1
TM9 Team Pacificcare 56 7/31/98 11:24 PM 131.40 2906.69 531 22.1 0.0 0.12 2
TM58 Team Austria 56 8/1/98 11:22 AM 143.37 2906.69 487 20.3 0.012.08 3
TM42 Team Colorado 52 8/1/98 11:38 PM 155.63 2794.23 431 18.0 4
TM61 Team Coast Guard51 8/1/98 12:03 PM 144.05 2756.98 459 19.1 5
TM60 Team Adventure 48 8/1/98 11:17 AM 143.28 2602.83 436 18.2 6
TM56 Team Tyler 48 8/1/98 12:12 PM 144.20 2602.83 433 18.1 7
TM53 Team Men In Moti46 8/1/98 9:35 AM 141.58 2497.24 423 17.6 8
TM54 Team New York 43 8/1/98 7:07 AM 139.12 2372.86 409 17.1 9
TM59 Team Jimmy 41 8/1/98 10:30 AM 142.50 2295.16 387 16.1 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: 7/31/98 10:55 P.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
NOTES
Date: 7/29/98 Time: 12:09 PM Note: Rider dropped out due to overheating
East of Roswell, NM.
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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
Time: 10 min.Reason: Failed to call their Time Station times in a timley
manner, given by Michael Shermer
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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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