[ORRando] Oregon Team wins Race Across the West

[Ken Morton]

I don't post often, but I will for this. Lisa and I were on Tom's crew
along with his girlfriend Cassie. Tom and George ROCKED the race. The
original goal was to have fun, finish, and win 2 man RAW in that
order.  George also hoped to make it to Taos in under 60 hours, which
they did in grand style. At some point we realized that we could be
the first racers into Taos, and that was the new goal - well they did
that too!

I did a blog post here: http://tworao.blogspot.com/

Tom is owner of GVH Bikes in Coos bay: http://www.gvhbikes.com/

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM, <david.readytoride at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's Official!
>
> RAO GVHBikes (37 year old Tom Letsinger and 47 year old George Thomas) has
> just won the RAW 2 Man Team Division. The Race Across the West is considered
> as the toughest part of RAAM - the World's Toughest Bicycle Race. At just
> over 1,000 miles contestants from all over the world, will battle heat in
> the deserts, climbing in the mountains and an intense pace to get to the
> finish line in Taos, New Mexico. There are solo riders, 2-person and
> 4-person teams competing.
>
> They raced 1044.10 in 2 days 10 hours and 56 minutes averaging 17.72MPH.
>
> Along with his wife, Terri Gooch, George Thomas is the co-founder of Race
> Across Oregon.
> _______________________________________________



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Ken Morton     Vancouver, WA USA
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"If llamas could ride bicycles, we'd be candy ass llamas!" Lisa, 2004