Sebring 12/24

[mike]

Great Job Sandy Earl and Greg Gross at Sebring
Conditions were not ideal. Windy and Florida cold and night time fog
made it a tough twentyfour hours. I look forward to the competitor
reports.
Sandy Earl RAAM 24 415 miles
Greg Gross RAAM 24 257.3 miles.

I had a great training ride two weeks ago and then riding to work one
morning had an unusual chest and neck sensation. I am now the proud
owner of a drug eluding LAD stent placed last tuesday. But I suffered
no significant heart injury. I left the carbent at home and took my
catrike to watch the event. I rode twelve miles, light pedalling. I
then chartered a plane and flew over the course. I finished the first
hundred in three hours and fortyfive minutes...using a plane.

It is always amazing to watch these athletes compete. John Sclitter
defended the recumbent honor with 463 miles, the overall winner. he
was racing in the drafting division.

Steve Hansen went 200.7 milesin 12 hours on his Catrike.

Mike

[Aikigreg]

Mike I'm sorry I missed you! I had a tough time of it unfortunately.
Almost all of those miles were just in the first 12 hours. Had I
known what was going to happen, I'd have saved myself time and effort
and just blasted those laps and won the thing!

[Dana Lieberman]

Greg,

Come on..tell us all about it!  Seems everyone went straight back to work instead of posting race reports...

Dana

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[Timothy Woudenberg]

I'll tell ya what I was most impressed with. Sandy stuck it out and hit her primary target, while the some of us were cursing our bad luck and the weather and trying to find a new target that was still reachable.

Kudos to you Sandy! Way to show us what you're made of.

I really want to hear Sandy's tale. Marching on into the wind and cold, undaunted by significant issues. Yet still nailing the course record she had set her sights on months ago.

The best I've got is a sad story of a busted Lightning at mile 100 and some time on a Carbon Aero. Please don't cry in your beer.

--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Dana Lieberman <bentup...@gmail.com> wrote:

[mike]

I kept looking on this guy on a bacchetta passing through the 11 mile
loop and saying to myself that guy looks just like Tim.
Where did Tim go? I saw no lightning nor any tennis ball ear.

I looked for folks out on the course from 1000 feet and the only guy I
was sure of was Jim Kern. That jacket is visible.