How you can help me

cycling, RAAM, Race Across America, ultra cycling | UltraRob | Thursday, June 8th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

First I want to thank my sponsors and the individuals that have donated money to help me achieve my dream of racing in the Race Across America. I have put a lot of effort into training and spent a lot of money just to get to the start line. It will take the dedication of my crew, lots more money and a lot of determination to get to the finish line in Atlantic City.

You can help motivate me by sending e-mails. Julie will be leaving Wednesday morning to meet us in Trinidad, CO so she can bring anything sent before then. Hopefully my crew can also check e-mail from the laptop at some of the hotels along the way.

If you live along the course you can always come out and cheer me on although there’s no guarantee what time of day or night I’ll be rolling through. The RAAM web site has detailed maps and elevation profiles for the sections between each timestation. The tracking page to watch my progress isn’t live yet although you can look at last year’s animated map to see what it should look like.

Buying from the advertisers on this blog and my web site helps me with my expenses for RAAM. You can also donate money through PayPal by clicking the button to the right. I’m not set up to take credit cards though. If you donated a penny per mile, it would be $30.43. Below I’ve put what I think my expenses are going to be. I think it is fairly accurate because I’ve spent quite a bit of it already. I was estimating spending between $10,000 and $15,000 and it looks like I’m at the upper end of that. These costs don’t even include my new bike and all of the new cycling shorts I bought so my crew doesn’t have do laundry too often.

Expense	Amount
Entry fee	$1500
Tubes and other spare bike parts	$600
Airfare for crew	$2000
Start hotel	$800
Finish hotel	$1300
Hotels during race	$1500
Gas for crew vehicles	$2000
My energy drinks, food and supplements	$1100
Food for crew	$1800
Miscellaneous	$2000
Car rental	$350
Total	$14,950