Race Across America RAAM

and he gets off the bike looking like he's just done a 4hr club ride. #jealous

Jesus, unsupported, that's another levels.

I was reading a short account of a bloke who did the RAAM (supported), and that alone sound incredibly gruelling, especially doing over a triple centuries a day with constant change of climate/terrain.

It's just a shame that the RAAM don't get that much exposure compared to the other cycling sport.

He must have been supported. There's nothing on his bike.

That'll be one of his team cars behind him. As far as I know you can't do RAAM unsupported anyway.
The rules state things like you must have a follow car at night, for example.

Although he does have a team car following him, is he getting support from them?

Although he does have a team car following him, is he getting support from them?

HE is

Yeah he was fully supported....
Only Jay Petervary is doing it completely unsupported as The whole point of his 'No idle tour' is to raise awareness of the amount of fuel people waste by leaving their cars idling...so he felt having a vehicle dawdling along behind him went against his cause.

I like his thinking.

Jay currently has less than 5OO miles to go, which is pretty damn good considering he's unsupported and carrying all his own gear.

I did notice that when i google no idle tour, the live update is pretty useful.

Look like he'll arrived on the 25th (US time).

Christoph Strasser finished RAAM a few hours ago in 8 days 8 hours....that's a pretty insane time for a three thousand mile race!

15 mph average. Not too difficult until you realise that to hit that, he would be riding at that speed for 200 hours straight, no rests. These men are insane.

There aren't enough people around like Jay Petervary. I love his conviction and consistency.

Jay's average speed is 10mph, which is still impressive for an unsupported ride.

Hey guys,
finished yesterday, 6 days, 6 hours.
Really great crew this year, fantastic work from everyone, esp after we had to go skelaton crew after we ripped the rv in half by putting it in a ditch. Everyone's ok from that, i'll post photos when I'm home.

As for now, I'm going for a ride in Annapolis.

http://crankaddicts.wordpress.com/

for anyone who wants a look.

Nhatt, wha?

well done nhatt. how many miles a day did you average?

According to the official RAAM site the crank addicts team got 6th place in the 4 person male under 5O team category with a combined average of 20.27 mph.
Another UK team got second and another got 1Oth....good showing from the UK in the male team category.

A UK team also took first in the 8 man category and 2nd and 3rd in mixed 4 persons....well done UK riders!

I can't get my head around how people cycle so many miles non stop.

Yup, It's pretty insane...you should watch the 'Bicycle dreams' trailer i posted further up the thread...there was a guy who had done 23 hours and had only been off the bike 8 minutes...nuts!

I can't get my head around how people cycle so many miles non stop.

Although not as insane as the RAAM team, someone did an average of 100 miles a day for 6 months going round the world.

I'd say riding 3OO+ miles per day for 8 days straight on almost zero sleep is more impressive personally Ed.
But that's just my opinion of course.

Hence "not as insane".

It's the way you quoted then phrased it Ed...it sounded like you were saying someone from the RAAM team did the 1OO miles a day for 6 months and that it was them that were more insane.

Good work Nhatt - well bloody done.