Race Across America 2006

After dreaming about the Race Across America for about 20 years, I attempted it in 2006. I had qualified for it in each of the previous 4 years. I did 4 different qualifiers from the heat of the desert to the cold rain of the mountains. My shortest qualifier was 400 miles and my longest was 544 miles. I knew that even 544 miles of racing was only a small taste of what it would be like to race 3,000 miles with a time limit just over 12 days.