Team Feat Race Across America
Team Feat - Data Techniques - the Race Across America
On 18th June Nick Crosby, James Gilfillan, Ian Patterson and Wayne Smith, otherwise known as Team Feat, are taking on the toughest endurance event in the world, Race Across America (RAAM), in aid of Wessex Heartbeat.
This is no ordinary race but a 3000 mile challenge to cycle across America, starting from Oceanside, Calfornia and finishing in Annapolis, Maryland. Team Feat will compete as a 4 man squad that has 9 days to complete the challenge. However, the aim is to take 6 days to be competitive as one of the quickest 4 man teams.
Heading across the desert, plains and mountains, braving the heat, wind, thunderstorms and altitude, and being faced with night riding, fatigue and sleep deprivation give this race the status as the toughest of challenges.
The team will be cycling in relay and will covering 350-500 miles a day, racing non-stop! The 3000 miles will take the racers across 12 states and they will climb over 170,000 vertical feet.
The Team are no strangers to pushing themselves to the limits with achievements by individual members including World and British Duathlon and British Triathlon Champion titles. They’ve also competed in the Ironman competition all over the world.
The team has a dedicated support crew of 10 members who will be paramount to the Team’s success.
Did you know?
- June 2011 is the 30th anniversary of the race
- The race is one the most respected and longest running endurance sports events in the world. RAAM is seen as a pinnacle of athletic achievement not only in cycling circles but the greater sporting community as well.
- RAAM is about 30% longer than the Tour de France. What’s more, racers must complete the distance in roughly half the time allowed for the Tour.
To find out more about Team Feat’s ‘Race Across America’ visit their website at http://www.teamfeat-raam.co.uk/
The dedication, training, preparation and organisation to undertake this challenge is phenomenal.
Team Feat and Wessex Heartbeat would be very grateful for your support of this ultimate challenge.
Please visit their JustGiving page to make a donation at www.justgiving.com/teamfeatraam2011
Sponsors
A big thank you to...
Title sponsor www.datatechniques.co.uk
Musto www.musto.com
NBM www.nbm-distribution.co.uk
Panduit www.panduit.com
RAAM by Numbers
- Total distance is more than 3000 Miles.
- Collectively, the Solo and Team finishers will travel a combined distance equivalent to circling the Earth at the equator seven times.
- Lowest elevation is 170 feet below sea level. Highest elevation is more than 10,000 feet high above sea level. This elevation range exceeds two vertical miles.
- Each Solo and Team will climb more than 100,000 feet. This is roughly the distance from the ground to the edge of space, more than three times the altitude flown by commercial jetliners and almost four times the altitude of Mt. Everest.
- Racers have come from 5 continents - North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. More than 25 countries have been represented in the Race Across America.
- RAAM crosses the five longest rivers that are entirely in the US: the Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande, Arkansas and the Ohio.
- In the last four years, RAAM racers have raised more than $4,000,000 for charities.
Links
www.teamfeat.co.uk
www.raceacrossamerica.org
Media
For more information or interviews with the Team Feat members please call Dawn Morrison on 023 8079 5217 or email dawn@heartbeat.org.uk
