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There are two TransAm Trails - the one you linked is nice bike friendly paved touring. The one I linked/covered in the link to hippy/as far as I can tell, the race is on is this one: http://www.transamtrail.com/the-trans-am-trail/ originally for offroad motorbikes.
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Oregon - Virginia https://www.adventurecycling.org/routes-and-maps/adventure-cycling-route-network/transamerica-trail/
Their route is means to be 4228 miles, but dropping those placenames into googlemaps in cycling mode, I get
4104 miles
105k ft climbing,
avg 25.6ft/mile
Gabes's Strava stats for TD2015
2,721.8mi
169,660ft
avg 62.33ft/mile