RAAM

Mark Beaumont talks ultra-endurance as he readies himself to take on his latest challenge, the pairs record at the Race Across America.

The map, route, start list, and dot tracking for the world's premier ultra-endurance race.

Leah Goldstein recently rode into the history books as the first female solo winner of Race Across America. Here, she takes us inside her incredible win.

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Rupert Guinness nearing halfway mark of virtual edition of legendary endurance race.

RAAM and Race Across the West cancel, to return in 2021.

The Outer Line was at the finish line of the Race Across America this year, and gained an inside look at the punishing 3,000-mile event.

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The Australian Veloroos team wins Race Across America in the four-person women's category after a week of riding across the country

The Australian Veloroos women's team is on track for a strong finish despite a tough sixth day of riding in Race Across America

The Veloroos women's team from Australia is setting a record pace in the 2015 Race Across America

The Veloroos women's team takes on the challenge of the windy Great Plains in day four of Race Accross America

The Australian Veloroos women's team arrives in California and shakes out the legs ahead of the Race Across America

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A group of four Australian women prepare to take on the Race Across America (RAAM) this June

That this 30th Annual Race Across America would be memorable was evident right from the start, just nine days ago.

EL DORADO, Kans. (VN) — All but one of the top ten solo males were beyond the half-way point of the 2011 Race Across America on Monday morning. This second half of RAAM has a distinctly different flavor than the first. For many, the attitude for the first half is one of “charge!” or “full speed ahead,” but by that halfway point (7 miles east of Pratt, Kansas) for some the mantra becomes “survival” or “What was I thinking?”

On the third day of the 2011 Race Across America race leader Christoph Strasser and chaser Marko Baloh were both on record pace, with Strasser’s overall average speed being 18.31 mph and Baloh holding 17.29 mph.

Time Station 6, Congress, Ariz. (VN) — In August of 1982 four cyclists departed from the pier in Santa Monica, California, in a race to the Empire State Building in New York City, New York. None of them knew that the “Great American Bike Race,” as it was called that first year, would still be going on 30 years later and that it would grow to what it is today.

Five-time winner of the Race Across America, Jure Robic, died of injuries suffered in traffic accident in his native Slovenia on Friday.

Throughout her race-winning 3,00-mile ride across the U.S., observers and fans talked of how recumbent racer Barbara Buatois looked as if she were out for a Sunday ride. And aside from appearing a bit darker than she did in Oceanside, California, at the start, she still looked much the same as she crossed the finish line in Annapolis, Maryland on Sunday, finishing in a time of 11 days, 19 hours and 48 minutes with an average speed of 10.59 mph.

Slovenian Jure Robic won his fifth Race Across America on Friday, finishing more than 12 hours ahead of runner-up Gerhard Gulewicz. Recumbent racer Barbara Buatois still leads the women’s race and is expected to finish early Sunday.

Second-placed Gerhard Gulewicz's crew remained optimistic of their rider's chance at overtaking leader Jure Robic, who is charging toward his third RAAM victory.

The usually upbeat spirit of the thousand or so people traveling the route of the Race Across America was darkened when Spanish rider Diego Ballesteros was struck by a car near Maize, Kansas.

Statistically over its 29-year history, about half of the riders who attempt the Race Across America make it to the finish line. This year, despite the heat of the desert in the early miles, the howling headwinds of the mountain states and the torrential rain and thunder storms in the plains, the attrition rate among the solos had been lower than usual.

There’s an old Race Across America adage that says “the race starts at the Missisipi River." Indeed, RAAM history shows many epic battles that didn’t begin until then. But if that is truly the case this year, then male solo leader Jure Robic is starting his last third of the race with a 5 1/4 hour head start over second place racer Gerhard Gulewicz.

After a few days of battling headwinds, sleep issues and severe weather that forced him to retreat to his motorhome on Saturday, RAAM solo mens leader Jure Robic has accepted that his quest for a new record is over. Now he just needs to deal with a surging challenger, Austria's Gerhard Gulewicz.

Over the weekend men's leader Jure Robic seemed to have recovered from issues that slowed his pace on Friday. His pace and appearance were greatly improved on Saturday and he once again seemed to be enjoying himself.

Jure Robic is leading the Race Across America despite a bout of stomach upset.

RAAM Update: Robic holds lead, two Americans in top-5

Four-time RAAM winner Jure Robic is in a familiar position — out in front and pulling away.

RAAM's first starters roll out of Oceanside, California

Brazilian Daniela Figueiredo Genovesi on Sunday became the first solo woman to finish the Race Across America in several years, taking the victory by some 10 hours over U.S. rider Janet Christiansen. Genovesi covered the the 3,021 miles from Oceanside, California, to Annapolis, Maryland, in 11 days, 17 hours and eight minutes. “I don’t know the words to say how I feel,” she said. “So happy, so happy.”

Annapolis, Md. – Team Type 1 rolled onto the Annapolis, Md., City Dock early Friday morning as champions of the eight-person team division of the Race Across America (RAAM). The athletes on Team Type 1 – all of whom have Type 1 diabetes – won the non-stop, transcontinental race in record time. They completed the 3,021-mile (4,861 km) distance in five days, nine hours and five minutes after starting Saturday afternoon in Oceanside, Calif.

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Before the start of the 28th Race Across America, pundits were predicting (or perhaps hoping) that this would not be another Jure Robic runaway. With one of the strongest fields ever, it seemed that someone would have the muscle to challenge the Slovenian army major.

The Race Across America is always a challenge—nothing about riding 3000 miles from the West Coast to the East Coast could ever be considered easy. But this year it is going to be particularly tough for a solo to win as possibly the most competitive, most experience field to grace this 28-year old event is now on course. Among those on an eastward heading to Annapolis, Maryland are two past winners and several riders with top five rides in their RAAM palmares.