Janice
Sheufelt has done it! She has won the under 50 women’s SOLO RAAM!
She
trained incredibly hard for this event and it’s been an accumulation of 4 years
of hard work. Each year, she has gone a little farther, done a little more and
last year she won the two person Mixed team RAAM, so in 2014 she decided she
was ready for solo RAAM.
An
incredible crew of support helped her along the way with one crew resting while
the other crew supported. A RV stocked full of food and goodies kept her fed
throughout with a massage therapist to work out the kinks of the 20+ hour days.
Not
sleeping at all for the first 40 hours helped to give her a great lead, along
with superior pacing strategy using her power meter to pace throughout, however
the elevation got to her in Colorado. She had to spend a night in the emergency
room and lost her 10 hour lead and now was 2-3 hours behind the first place
rider.
Fortunately,
she recovered from the altitude sickness and the 12 hours in the hospital was a
rest that the other competitors did not get. She re-took the lead in the farm
lands of the Midwest and held onto it all the way to the finish, where she
finished in 11days, 18 hours and 2 minutes, 14 hours ahead of second
place!
Way
to go Janice!! Along with winning the overall women’s division, she also won
the RAAM women’s rookie award!
PCG Coach: Hunter Allen
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