HTX Velo

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Thank you to all who came out to Last Concert Cafe to celebrate HTX Velo Femme’s course record at Race Across the West. We appreciate you, along with our top-notch crew and phenomenal sponsors. Thank you again to sponsors Haute Wheels Racing, Khalid Alrashed - State Farm agent, Plantgistix, Tile Roofs of Texas, Inc., Traughber Nutrition, Dan Gulf Shipping, Enterprise, Holland Racing, .club, Tacos A Go Go, Tasco Auto Color, Urban Bicycle Gallery, BASE Performance, Christopher Bean Coffee Company, Cindy Diggs, Dr. Ahuja at Medical Center ENT Associates, and Mike and Shannon Bollman. We are so grateful to be surrounded by amazing people who generously shared their time and resources with HTX Velo Femme!

OG meet up for tacos

This is HTX VeloFemme’s real MVP. We were able to accomplish our goal of setting a new course record at Race Across the West thanks to crew chief Paul Majors who did a phenomenal job planning and executing team logistics. Paul is a natural leader and was a perfect crew chief, as he is a detailed spreadsheet-loving engineer who also relates really well with people and thrives under pressure. We appreciate you so much Paul!! Thank you for taking care of countless details (hundreds of hours worth!) for HTX VeloFemme!

A week after returning from Race Across the West, HTX VeloFemme had a mini reunion on a local group ride this morning with racers plus crew members and Jim. In Houston, we don’t have hills (other than a few overpasses), so people just rip each other’s legs off in the flats, hitting speeds of >35mph.

HTX Velo Femme did it, thanks to the support of truly extraordinary crew and sponsors. We finished Race Across the West (930 miles from California to Colorado with 55,000 feet of climbing) in 52 hours 47 minutes and 31 seconds. That’s an average of 17.67mph, setting a new course record for 4-woman teams. Thank you to our sponsors Haute Wheels Racing, Khalid Alrashed - State Farm agent, Plantgistix, Tile Roofs of Texas, Traughber Nutrition, Dan Gulf Shipping, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Holland Racing, iAthlete.club, Tacos A Go Go, TASCO Auto Color, Urban Bicycle Gallery, BASE Performance, Christopher Bean Coffee, Cindy Diggs, Dr. Ahuja at Medical Center ENT Associates, and Mike and Shannon Bollman. We appreciate each and every one of you and all who helped us accomplish our goal and who sent encouraging words along the way. 💖💖💖

Update: we just passed the 48-hour marker from our Race Across the West start and have completed >845 miles. 💖 We love riding in Utah and will be in Colorado in 5 miles!

We shared the RAW mobile tracking link, but this link is for anyone who wants more detailed tracking info as we keep pushing the pace to set a 4-woman team course record. We are in our final 130 miles (current status is we are climbing — again LOL — just a couple of miles from the 800-mile marker of 930).

RAAM 2019 live tracking app by trackleaders.com Embeddable tracking application, live tracking event map for RAAM 2019, leaderboard coverage, including links to individual track history pages

Good morning, friends! We just changed time zones so jumped from 4-5am. Also we are >700 miles in, and the timing device was delivered to us near Flagstaff last night, so we are now live on the tracker. 😊 —

Live Tracking

Pamela pulls off the road on Meggin’s right in a rolling transition in Prescott National Forest (where they encountered >130 feet of climbing per mile). In rolling transitions, which we may do from 7am-7pm except on reservation land where direct vehicle follow and stopped transitions are required, retiring rider’s front wheel must cross new rider’s rear wheel. HTX VeloFemme is ~500 miles into Race Across the West and on target to meet its goal.