Category Archives: Latest News
Lon Haldeman Award 2011
It’s finally arrived! For those that haven’t heard, Team Swift and Bold won RAAM’s Lon Haldeman Award 2011 for the most charitable funds raised. Here it is: We’ve so far raised £81.5k. Thank you so much to everyone who has … Continue reading
Photo Gallery is up
Thanks to everyone for sending their photos over. They are now up on the website, under the “Gallery” link – enjoy! Keep them coming if there are more. http://www.teamswiftandbold.com
Blinked and almost missed The Rockies
I was off shift when the racers did the Rockies. And it seriously felt like I blinked and missed it, they did them SO quickly! The huge climbs just disappeared under those determined legs and then it was down, down, … Continue reading
Well Done RAAM Roses
This is probably not the done thing but below are some videos of one of our competitors, the RAAM Roses. We first met them at the London RAAM Seminar when they announced that they were out to smash the mixed … Continue reading
Twinges and niggles – The Translation
stevepengillysays: 05/07/2011 at 16:30 All, Due to my lack of blogging skills (Catrriona help!) I have decided to send this super important, hot off the press, military intelligence report via these means. I have gained valuable insights from Martin’s last … Continue reading
Swift and Bold RAAM 2012
Team Swift and Bold’s Time Trial helmets for RAAM 2012 were chosen after much debate!
RAAM Officials
To state the obvious, RAAM wouldn’t happen without the RAAM officials. They spend ages getting ready for the event and seem to stay up for the whole race too! From those doing the paperwork at the start of the race, … Continue reading
Twinges and niggles.
I’m blogging from my couch with my feet up. . . and my left and right ankles and right knee in ice-packs. I spent the previous 15 minutes massaging my tendons with ibuprofen gel. I’ve made friendly drop-in visits to both my physio … Continue reading
Direct Following
So what’s it like to direct follow a cyclist during RAAM? Boring? Certainly not! I was lucky enough to work the midnight to midday shift, and based on the rota ended up direct following Dave and Cuz three times (cos … Continue reading
