Race Across America Day 9

Most years just over half of the solo Race Across America racers make it to the finish line. Amazingly nobody has dropped out in the last 24 hours. In the men’s race, only 5 out of 25 races have dropped out. A few are very close to the time cut-off and are in danger of being cut from the race in Indianapolis. It still seems like a high finish rate is possible this year.

Jure Robic only has 110 miles left to Atlantic City. His closest competitor is over 100 miles behind. Unless something goes wrong, he’ll probably be celebrating his 3rd Race Across America victory by the time I get out of bed in the morning. Wolfgang Fasching is still in 2nd place but Daniel Wyss and Gerhard Gulewicz are less than 2 hour behind so sleep breaks could determine who pulls off 2nd place. Fasching is said to be suffering but so are the other 2. Fasching has won three times so I believe he’ll use his experience to hold onto 2nd place.

Tags: cycling, Jure Robic, RAAM, Race Across America, ultra cycling

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