One of the hardest races, Race Across America (RAAM) started yesterday in Oceanside, CA. Here is a blurb from Velonews.
The Race Across America is always a challenge—nothing about riding 3000 miles from the West Coast to the East Coast could ever be considered easy. But this year it is going to be particularly tough for a solo to win as possibly the most competitive, most experience field to grace this 28-year old event is now on course. Among those on an eastward heading to Annapolis, Maryland are two past winners and several riders with top five rides in their RAAM palmares.
After rolling out at noon Wednesday from the pier at Oceanside, California, Slovenian Army major Jure Robic, the event’s only four-time winner, has already powered to the front in his bid for his fifth RAAM title.
Robic was the first at time station No.1 at Lake Henshaw, with another past winner, Daniel Wyss of Switzerland, rolling past just minutes later, with American RAAM rookie mere seconds behind Wyss. Back another three minutes was Austrian Gerhard Gulewicz in his fourth RAAM.
Read the rest here.
