![]() The thing most rookies of RAAM don’t realize is that you can feel absolutely amazing for a majority of the race. This has been proven to be the best and fastest way to get across the country. Is that a common way to race it? Is it the same or different approach from your first RAAM? Your race strategy/format was doing 6-hour shifts with 2 riders rotating. Saturday: 4-hour ride in the Santa Monica Mountains Thursday: 1-hour ride at some time of the dayįriday: 2.5-hour very easy road ride through Santa Monica Tuesday (second session): Zwift Race, 45 minutes to an hour On the bike by 6 am and ride to a group ride by LAX airport. Monday: 1-hour morning ride, 1hr afternoon or evening ride. So my week would only consist of about 12 hours of total riding, 15 if I'm lucky. When my day starts at 4:30 am and is typically done around 10 pm, getting on Zwift makes the training effort a success-because it's not a wasted 75 to 90 minute ride as it very easily can be outdoors. Being that I have a very busy schedule, most days Zwift is the best thing for me. Zwift and I have a love-hate relationship. What was a typical training week in the months leading up to RAAM? Guessing you spent lots of time on Zwift to prepare. Back then, the fact I was entering into the unknown was scary but also a blessing because it allowed me to ride very freely not knowing what was around the corner, or in the next state for that matter. The good thing about not knowing is not knowing. My first time racing RAAM was just an emotional rollercoaster. Were there some lessons you learned from your first RAAM in 2018 that helped you this year? Alex and I were the only two who had raced it. Our team was a 50/50 split with RAAM experience. How much RAAM experience did your team have? He replied: “Let’s ride for your charity.” Of course I said yes! Given that our world has been faced with a lot of negativity over the last 16 months, I said we must find something we can do that brings change for the betterment of our society. It’s such a unique yet grueling event-why would I want to put myself through that level of pain, cold, heat and sleep deprivation against something bigger than us? Well, when my 2018 teammate Alex Isaly called me asking about racing again in 2021, without hesitation I said NO! But after a few more calls and twisting my arm, I agreed. How was Team Thin Energy assembled for this year’s RAAM?Īfter racing it in 2018 for the first time, I thought I would never do RAAM again.
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