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- QUESTION: HOW do you
“'eycle across the U.S. froin
Irvine, California te
“Savannah, Georgia in six

“ days, three hours and 33

* minutes? :

. Answer: With a great deal of
“grit, lots of organization and virtu-
My no'sleep. =. * ., -

»Back home .to give testimony
to this effect are four young men.
in their early 20s:,.Kris °°’

. Sutherland and A.J. Vickery of *
‘North Vancouver, Paul’ Heilbuth
of Vancouver and Richmond's.”
“Steve Cork. All four are bike rac-"
ers but they didn‘treally’ 2°.
"encounter the penultimate in their
“sport until they competed as a-
team in the annual! Race ‘Across
‘America (RAAM) earlier this,
‘: month. -
~The ultimaté?: That's supposed
“to be the Tour de France. Twenty-
* four daily stages,’a total of 3, 400 ©
“kilometres (2,108 miles)’ Day-
© light, hours only and a bed to sleep
pimat night, ‘Nonetheless,’ ‘a tough
grind. ; :
oe “But how. abou the RAAM?,

ago. From sea to shining sea. ,

“armadillo and open drawbridges

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NORTH VANCOUVER cyclists A. J. Vickery (lett) and Kris: Sutherland, along with two other Lower
Maintand racers, set a rookie time record at the annual Race Across America. The foursome completed *:
“the 4,675 km non-stop relay race from California to > Georgia in six days,

old summertime in ‘Tennessee and
Georgia.
Fifteen teams — some: from as

Went into business i in. 1982 and
added the team event four years

4,675 kilometres (2,899 miles).
Twenty-four hours a day, no
 Sleepovers.

| Across the burning California
aud Arizona deserts. up to 12,000
~ feet:(3,600 metres) in the ;
“ Colorado Rockies, chased by dogs
across the flatlands of Oklahoma,
‘the twin hazards of the dreaded

n Arkansas and the outdoor’
sauna, plus dogs, that is the good

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youngest team of all, the guys
from this corner of B,C.. who fin-
ished fifth and seta rookie time
record, ,

What makes the team event in
this race special is that it’s a non-
stop Sprint. Over veggie burgers at
the Lonsdale Quay, Sutherland
and Vickery explained the drill —
a non-stop relay event, each rider
going his best lick for 15 to 20
minutes before being replaced by...
another from one of the two
accompanying vans,

‘The roster was rotated so that
three of them would do the actual
racing for two hours while the
fourth guy go 40 winks in the: __
third vehicle, a rented motorhome.
And so it went for most of the trip
except for 40 degree-plus in the . —
desert and the thin mountain air.in
Colorado, Shift changers there *

. came every 10 minutes or less.

; y ead, -. When they weren't riding or
i sopnnunnaliiamaatta| sleeping, they were eating. About .
oe : fies! 6,000 calories a day. In your.:
Sore sedentary job you probably inhale
é about 2,000. Vickery defied all. the
laws of strenuous exercise. As thin °
as the handle of a garden rake. he
weighed more at the end of the:
three hours and 33 minutes. -race than he did-at the start.
a He can thank his girlfriend,
as Brazil. Austria and Katrina Pacey. She was in charge :
of feeding the troops. Sheri

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