Local Newspaper Article

cycling, RAAM, Race Across America, ultra cycling | UltraRob | Monday, July 10th, 2006 at 7:47 pm

Our local paper, the Gazette, published an article about RAAM last week.

It was weather worthy of “The Wizard of Oz,” and in the end, it was Rob Lucas’ downfall.

Lucas, a 35-year-old software engineer from Colorado Springs, was more than halfway into the Race Across America, a grueling crosscountry bike race that started in Oceanside, Calif., and would end in Atlantic City, N.J.

He had been riding strongly and steadily, for days since the race officially started June 11. He had endured waves of dry heat in California’s Mojave Desert and the relentless climb over Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado. He had ridden through pain in his quadriceps on the Colorado plains.

But as he pedaled east, he met his nemesis: a summer storm system, massive, dark and mean, that beat the riders for hours.

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