Potholes and Road Apples

This article appeared in Friday’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era: 
For 14-year-old Maria DeNunzio, her biggest dream was a nightmare.
She was the youngest and only female among 60 participants in the 15th annual Nightmare Bicycle Tour held on Aug. 8.
The bike ride covered some 177 miles and earned its name because it includes rolling hills, steep hills, […]

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The first riders began the 3,000-mile Race Across America this week and unlike last year - and, hopefully, next year - there was no Lancaster riders registered.
Last year, Team Cycle Smart, led by local bicycling advocate Mike Ridgeway, did the epic race. Ridgeway said the two-man-two-woman team is sitting this one out. They plan to […]

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Team Cycle Smart became the first Lancaster-based team to complete the Race Across America this morning. The four-person team crossed the finish line in Annapolis, Md. at 8:31 a.m., completing the non-stop, cross-country race in seven days, 15 minutes, 12 seconds.
The team of Mike Ridgeway, Denise Stone, Bob Ansell and Robin Smith averaged 16.45 mph […]

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The Lancaster-based Cycle Smart team is nearing the end of its cross-country journey.
The team of two women and two men is expected to reach the Race Across America finish line in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday morning at 5:21 a.m., based on their average speed of 16.74 mph since starting the non-stop race in Oceanside, Calif. […]

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The four-person Cycle Smart team, the first Lancaster-based team to attempt, the cross-country, non-stop Race Across America, is crossing the Arizona desert this morning after beginning their race at 5 p.m. EST Wednesday.
The team of Mike Ridgeway, Bob Ansell, Denise Stone and Robin Smith were 345 miles into this race late this morning after reaching the fifth time […]

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Lancaster’s first home-grown Race Across America team will set off from Oceanside, Calif. today.
The two-man, two-woman Cycle Smart team will race non-stop across the country. They are expected to arrive in Annapolis, Md. in about seven days.
You can follow their progress on the RAAM webpage.
The team is an outgrowth of Lancaster-based Dream Ride Projects.
Dream Ride […]

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The first Lancaster-based team to participate in the Race Across America is preparing for its departure in preparation for the start of the epic cross-country race on June 7.
Team Cycle Smart RAAM, an outgrowth of Lancaster-based Dream Ride Projects, is a mixed-four person team - two men and two women - who will start in Oceanside, […]

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(First published in Saturday’s New Era)
For mountain climbers, there is Mount Everest.
For triathletes, there is the Kona Ironman.
And for some bicyclists, there is RAAM.
And for the first time, a Lancaster-based team will attempt the most famous ultra-distance bicycle race, the coast-to-coast Race Across America.
The two-man, two-woman team will be led by Lancaster bicycle advocate Mike […]

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The exhausted, bleary-eyed riders of the 2008 Race Across America will not be stopping to check in at Georgetown, in southern Lancaster County, before make their last, final push to the Atlantic City finish line.
Race organizers announced Tuesday that Annapolis, Maryland will be host the finish of the coast-to-nearly-coast bicycle race next June. As a […]

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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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