Time station 29 - 9:34 pm (21:34) eastern time. Yates Center, Kansas. Kevin is still doing work!

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Kevin now has a fresh crew that includes Troy, John,
and Bejan. Bejan will takes some nights pics of Kevin and the crew. They will roll along the light rollers throughout the Kansas night on their way to yet another crew exchange in Camdenton where Roger and Danny are patiently waiting. From there we will join Kevin again to see the Mighty Mississippi! In case you forgot he's still on his bike while we all sleep.;)

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Just past TS 2 El Dorado. This a picture of a Burger King for the Kaiser King. Fuel for champions.
Weather has been great! The crosswinds have been gradually turning into a tailwind. Kevin is tired but, he working thru it. Mentally he is sharp and is reasoning very well.
We decided to change out crews a little earlier so he doesn't stop until he's really really tired. Its really hard for us to believe he's tired by the way he's steadily knocking off the miles. We got a analogy from Mike DeLong earlier that Kevin had just rode the equivalent of back to back 1200Km's under a 60hr pace for each. Is that RAAM qualified or what?! By the way he's the leading American on this world class race. There are racers from all corners of the world racing for their country and themselves. Georgia be proud of this hard working, self sponsored Pharmacist!

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Just past TS 2 El Dorado. This a picture of a Burger King for the Kaiser King. Fuel for champions.
Weather has been great! The crosswinds have been gradually turning into a tailwind. Kevin is tired but, he working thru it. Mentally he is sharp and is reasoning very well.
We decided to change out crews a little earlier so he doesn't stop until he's really really tired. Its really hard for us to believe he's tired by the way he's steadily knocking off the miles. We got a analogy from Mike DeLong earlier that Kevin had just rode the equivalent of back to back 1200Km's under a 60hr pace for each. Is that RAAM qualified or what?! By the way he's the leading American on this world class race. There are racers from all corners of the world racing for their country and themselves. Georgia be proud of this hard working, self sponsored Pharmacist!

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Kevin being the true RAAM racer he is. This is a picture of him handing back the spray sun screen he put on himself so he would not have to stop pedaling.
There are 2 chases going on here, Kevin hunting Gulewicz and Kevin being hunted by Pattinson and Warner-Smith, oh yea and the rest of the racers!
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Time station 27 Maise, KS 14:58 race time (eastern) 3rd place. Applying sunscreen on bike because; "If I stop I get caught."

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Good Morning to Everyone from Durango! This picture was taken just before Kevin came into TS:15 in Durango. Kevin slept there for 1.5 hrs. I believe he's 16 plus hours ahead of the first cut off. Awesome! He ate Mickey D's big breakfast and a parfait. He's alert and wanting to ride. He's having the pains you would think a person would have after riding 857 miles on some the roughest roads in America. He dealing with it with the kind of humble attitude the Kaiser is known for.

Gator
(sorry for the late post)
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It started raining at 3:00pm just perfect timing for Kevin to finally get some rest. With only 3.5 hours of mostly small 15 min. naps and one 1.5 hour sleep cycle, its time for Z's.
The crew thought briefly about exploring the cave in the pic but, decided there were way to many thorny bushes and possible snakes to navigate around.

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It started raining at 3:00pm just perfect timing for Kevin to finally get some rest. With only 3.5 hours of mostly small 15 min. naps and one 1.5 hour sleep cycle, its time for Z's.
The crew thought briefly about exploring the cave in the pic but, decided there were way to many thorny bushes and possible snakes to navigate around.

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While scouting around while Kevin is resting I came across this skull and shoe. I believe it belonged to a horse. If anyone can identify what kind it is post it on the blog. I'm keeping the shoe, I'm sure it means good luck!

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Just pasted Mark Pattinson!

Kevin just past one of his good friends Mark Pattinson who may be suffering from Shermers neck. This should place Kevin in 3rd place when we get to TS:27 Maize KS. Passing Mark was an epic moment for Kevin. Kevin has the utmost respect and admiration for Mark and is extremely pleased to be racing along side Mark at this point of the race. This moment is most definitely inspiring Kevin to Race on! Photo's to come tonight.
Also these short daily posts that I was sending a few days ago have been backing up somewhere in the Net World. The next few posts will be from last few days.
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Update

Troy and I left Pratt, KS to get to our next switch point and we passed
Kevin, then Mark Pattison only 6 miles ahead of Kevin.

John

in elevators till Wichita, KS .

Also we've hit the halfway mark (1502.5 miles) in 4 days and 20 hours! Although we're not even counting miles anymore but it should be about 25 more gra

The name on this water tower is Cunningham, KS. Kevin just passed Matthew Warner Smith for 4th place! Post your support!

RAAM Day 4

RAAM Day 4 Photos (click on photo)