[Closed] Race Accross America

Anyone?

Colleague's husband did it in a team of 5 this year.

Don't know much about it other than the septics come highly prepared!

Solo or team?
Back in 1994 I trained with a guy that raced it as a team. He was nuts, but in a nice way.
The team packed on day 3 in the mountains - the altitude and heat got to them, together with the fact that the altitude meant they were unable to run the generators to recharge their lights. Things have moved on though.

There was also a programme on ITV4 recently about a UK guy who raced it solo. There was a discussion on here about it. I'd have liked to know how much training he did - I'd argue that you can't train in the UK for the heat of the US (I lived in Ohio - it was often 40C and 95% humidity), or the altitude for that matter.

Oh - and make sure you bring a bungee cord to hold your head up when your neck muscles go.

Personally, I'd aim for Paris-Brest-Paris or something more sensible 😉

Paris-Brest-Paris makes a shed load more of sense! Better start accumulating Audax points

I looked a bit into this once. It is *very* expensive to enter, even as a solo rider. You need support vehicles, a team of support crew etc. Typical cost to do it is well into the tens of thousands of dollars, so you've either got to be rich, or sponsored by some generous companies.

Joe