Young Austrian wins 2011 RAAM cross-country bike race

Austrian ultracyclist Christoph Strasser rolled into City Dock at Annapolis shortly after midnight on Thursday to win his first Race Across America.

The 28-year-old had just finished a 2,989-mile cross-country bicycle race across the US, covering the distance in 8 days, 8 hours, and 6 minutes. That's an average speed of 14.94 mph.

As he rolled across the finish, his 19 competitors in the RAAM solo men's division (under 50) were spread along the route all the way back to somewhere between Effingham, Illinois, and Sullivan, Indiana. Two others had dropped out.

Some 10 hours after finishing, Strasser's closest challenger, US ultracyclist Mark Pattinson .....

Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/6/24/4844961.html

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