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After 7 days, 1 hour and 23 minutes, Lancaster bicyclist Mike Ridgeway and his TeamEndeavor reached the finish line of the Race Across America in Atlantic City, N.J., at 6:47 p.m. Tuesday.
The four-man team finished sixth of 16 in their category, with an average speed of just under 18 miles per hour over the 3043 […]

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Local bicyclist Mike Ridgeway was pedaling through Lancaster County this morning, completing the last hours and the last miles of the Race Across America.
Ridgeway is part of the four-man TeamEndeavor, which began riding June 12 in Oceanside, Calif. They were expected to check in at Time Station 54, in Georgetown, southern Lancaster County, at about […]

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Lancaster bicyclist Mike Ridgeway is expected to ride through southern Lancaster County Tuesday morning as he and his Central Pennsylvania-based TeamEndeavor near the finish line.
Ridgeway, founder of the Dream Ride Projects bicycling advocacy organization, is part of a four-man team doing the cross country Race Across America. They started in Oceanside, Calif. on June 12.
This […]

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Lancaster bicyclist Mike Ridgeway’s TeamEndeavor passed Springfield, Colo. this afternoon, leaving the Rockies behind them and heading east to Kansas.
The four-man team from Central Pennsylvania remains in seventh place in their division. After nearly three full days of pedaling across the country in the Race Across America, the team is averaging a steady 18.06 miles […]

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As the sun was rising on Lancaster County this morning, Mike Ridgeway was still in the dark and leaving Mexican Hat, Utah behind him.
Ridgeway’s TeamEndeavor visited the Race Across America’s Time Station 12 at 6:09 a.m. Eastern Time, (4:09 a.m. MDT). The four-man team remains in seventh place in their division. They have covered 681 […]

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Local bicyclistMike Ridgeway’s TeamEndeavor was in seventh-place in their division Wednesday morning as members of the four-man team pedaled across the southwest in their second day of the Race Across America.
TeamEndeavor, led by Ray Peske of Dauphin County, was averaging 19.79 miles per hour this morning as it crossed Time station 5 in Hope, Arizona, […]

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This week has been quiet for Mike Ridgeway.
He has wrapped up lose ends, did some laundry and rode to work on his old, steel commuting bicycle to his Lancaster office.
The one thing he didn’t do was get much sleep.
“You can’t store sleep,” said Ridgeway.
He would, if he could. Ridgeway will spend next week in motion. Beginning Tuesday, Ridgeway and […]

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For each of the past five years, Mike Ridgeway has spent days and nights in late June camped out in Georgetown, in Lancaster County’s southern end, waiting for tired bicyclists to arrive.
Ridgeway, a local bicycling advocate, has manned Time Station 54, the last manned checkpoint in the Race Across America. Bicyclists pass that point in […]

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