INSIGHT RACE ACROSS AMERICA HITS NATIONAL AIRWAVES RAAM 2004 will air on NBC with a 2 hour special on
Saturday January 22 - from 2:30 - 4:30 EST
The ULTIMATE
Ultracycling Marathon
"Anyone who knows me well knows about my love affair with RAAM," Says television executive-producer and NBC broadcaster Jim Lampley of the world's toughest ultra-endurance event. "When we first arrived in Santa Monica in1981 to meet John Marino and the three other men who would start out with him, we had no idea what we were about to see and I'm not sure they did either. But from the wee hours of that first night, chasing Lon Haldeman into Death Valley, I've always felt this is the ultimate American trip. Now we have a great opportunity to share it with millions of Americans who have never really seen it, Pacific to Atlantic across the broad backs of three thousand miles of roads, from the inside out, the way we see it on RAAM.The name alone still give me chills, has for twenty-five years:
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