Potholes and Road Apples

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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