Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
June 18 Recap
Ahhh, it's Friday night on a hot summer night in Bloomington, Indiana. We've accomplished a lot in the past 3 days and nights. Fifty riders have come through this time station 39 as evidenced by our world famous leader board. We added color coding for each day of arrival here at time station 39. The Old Aussie crew asked us, "Where are we?" I told them, "Your team hasn't come through yet!". I put them on the board to quiet them down!
The highlight of Friday was in the wee hours of the morning. Team Kalyra came through around 4am. I might have been seeing double, but it sure looked like they had 4 RV's and 4 vans for this 4 gal team. I made a comment about the huge contingent, and a crew member or rider retorted with sarcasm, "Yeah, our horse and pony show!" Good thing they arrived at night. There was plenty of parking at 4am.
About an hour later my Italian belladonna, Sabrina Bianchi, came through and stopped for a bit at our time station. I was honored. She looked to be in good spirits and was riding well. Later in the race she passed Michelle Santilhano to take 2nd place solo women at the end. The girls did well in 2010.Thursday, June 17, 2010
June 17 Recap
A busy day was upon us. All types of teams and more solo's came through. And then there was the glass recycling troop that camped out for 8 hours in front of our view of the oncoming racers.
It was good that I went home to get about 3 hours of sleep and shower. Well, in RAAM terms it was great that I got 2 REM cycles of sleep. I got back to the TS at 3pm and our view was much better as the recyclers left for Oxford,OH. Sandy Earl stopped by for quite a long time. She was definitely the bad luck girl of RAAM, as she encountered every type of bad weather one could imagine. She finally DNF'd in Kansas, but she's enjoying her stay here in Indiana as they are camping tonight at Brown County State Park. They are still going to Annapolis and cheer on all the RAAM participants.
Solo's have started to drop out. We started out with 30 solo's, and now have 17 still pedaling. Three of the five women are still alive. Michelle Santilhano just came through looking quite good. Talk about a vast improvement from her DNF in 2009.
I'm waiting for the Italian belladonna Sabrina Bianchi to come through in the wee hours of Friday, June 18.
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