Sunday, June 17, 2012

RAAM Post 9: climbers we are not.

We arrived shortly after noon  on Sunday  (1400EST) at TS7.  We were outclimbed in some very demanding sedctions byt several teams and find ourselfs in 7th of the 18th teams--certainly wellwithin striking distance--we are hoping for the young guns to real in these teams over the next 8-9 hours.

We take over around 9 our time tonighht ehich I think is around 0000 monday for you and our shift will be entirely in the night.  My last two pulls: number 9 and number 10 were very different:

shift 9: all up a very steep hill
10:36
1.96 miles
228 watts
11.0 mph
78rpm

shift 10:a bit of a climb fullowed by a terrifying 3.5 mile descent into prescot.
11:38
4.56 miles
159 watts
23.4 mph
53 rpm
163 calories
136 bpm HR/148 max

We are now leaving Prescot and rapidly nearing 500 miles in.  We'll hopefully get some sleep and be readt to go at 9 am in Tuba City

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