2008 RAAM Day 3

| UltraRob | Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Note: I’ve had very little cell phone service today. I’m writing this around 7 PM race time (always EDT) but not sure when I’ll be able to post it.

David Holt has continued to ride very well and is still leading the 50+ category in the 2008 Race Across America. Last night he once again he rode through the night and so far today without taking a sleep break.

I spent from 4 AM to 4 PM race time in his follow vehicle. I did sleep about 3 of the first 4 hours though. Now I’m in the 2nd van until midnight with crew chief Lisa. At least we should be able to take naps if we need to. David just took about a 10 minute power break and the time station in Montezuma Creek, UT and continued on. Montezuma Creek is 719 miles into the race.

Last night when I wasn’t in the follow vehicle, they got a screw in the tire. It was during the time a follow vehicle. Fortunately the 2nd van was close and was able to take over while they ran and got the tire fixed for the main follow vehicle.

Coming into the Keyenta time station it is downhill and David had a nice tailwind. The downside was he had trouble staying awake because he wasn’t working very had.

David enjoyed riding through Monument Valley with all the great views. We got a scare when he was descending from Monument Valley to Mexican Hat. David has been using very deep rimmed Zipped wheels and the cross wind made his bike start shimmying really bad. We thought for sure he was going to crash. Fortunately he didn’t and was able to get slowed down. The wheels continued to be a problem in the wind so we had to do a wheel swap.