With 8 tandems, if each team rode the same amount it works out to 60 miles per day. At one point, Thom was asleep and one of the racers was driving our van. I asked him what he had done to train for this and his reply was nothing; it was just 60 miles a day in 10 - 15 mile increments - most of the time the racers were doing 30 minute pulls, except in the Rockies and the Appalachians. To be fair the person I asked was Joe Peterson who holds the current RAAM record for both 2 man and 4 man teams.

The real accomplishment was getting 26 people across the country, without too many navigation errors and without killing each other due to personality conflicts as we got more and more tired. As crew we were getting about two hours of sleep in the van each day while the racers drove. That means the van was moving and our second set of racers would be getting in and out as we slept. Earplugs are a must for this sort of thing. At least that's what Thom and I were getting, I can't speak to the other crews. We'd also catnap for 10 - 20 minutes when we were stopped.

Veronica