Race Across America and West Start 2024 – Giovanni, Pete Penseyres and David Haase

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2009 Furnace Creek 508 Solo

Pete Penseyres
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Jim Penseyres

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Jessica’s Strava

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George’s Strava

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[Music] [Applause] Tuesday June the 11th we’re down here at the race start of Race Across the West there’s the banner there’s always some folks that I know so I’ll probably run into some folks but for now we’re just going to take in the sights and the sounds adorable come on how you doing George I am doing fantastic give me some elbow elbow elbow boom I’m rolling through AER from our media you’re welcome to shoot photos if you do you want me to take your bike um I just want to find all right so we’re going to make our way over to the staging area this is where all the vehicles are parked crew vehicles I should say so we’re going to this is what I call the compound so we’re just going to do a quick drive by as they say there seems to be a lot more povs privately owned vehicles through here usually it’s all filled with crew vehicles so we’re just going to take a quick look good luck to you boys and girls Good Luck Good Luck Good [Music] Luck well yeah I guess we got Surfers in here too then that’s probably why there’s not a lot of crew vehicles in here because we got people that are surfing that have taken up some of these [Music] spots Good Luck Good Luck Good Luck You tail Wings tail Wings tail wings [Music] Jaan nice to see you today this isina nice meeting you nice to meet you how you feeling sir I’m feeling good here I got a microphone for you hang on like like that I’m feeling very good I’m feeling excited I slept well you slept well yes I ate well did you check in with this lady yet uh this one right here she looks like she’s calling out numbers yeah okay I’m third last so you got 20 minutes before I have my R I have my r in Al that means in the mouth of the world cuz it’s the most safe place in the world yes okay and I yeah usually they say CRA luo but CU I’m vegan I say V luo cuz it’s more animal friendly CRA means means die the wol Viva means long life to the wolf okay so you slept well feeling good hey I wanted to ask you what uh what type of uh Power or watts per kilogram do you no I go by feeling I I go by feeling I’m going to I want to be my uh higher Zone one show Zone one yes for a while for as long as post okay and climbing I usually climb in my zone two in an ultra race so long if it’s 500 miles I I risk the zone three too yeah okay but but very little right yes for no also for a long clim I can risk a zone three in a 5 five 500 miles in this one no I’ll take it a little bit easier High Zone one and yeah I Zone one zone two for climbing yeah yeah so we came backwards um we were East and we came West and uh you know I was just I showed J where the official start is so you know all of this is neutralized yes at the end of the bike pet yeah yes yes you have anybody rolling with you they used to do that you used to be able to ride no so it’s one by one it’s forbidden and on the backe pl you cannot pass the guy I who started before you okay so if it happens they’re going to give you a penalty you have to wait even if it’s going very slow you have to wait for him did you say you were the last to roll out no I’m the third last uh dorina is the last one dorina is the last one and uh the other ital no no no no no no no spec we’re just watching spectator ah maybe and the other Italian guy gardi Pao gardi is second last oh okay where what was he wearing in the in the blue oh in the pink in the pink close to that guy is my crew chief luuka with the beard yes oh that’s your crew chief okay yeah my my very exper crew chief you’re very experienced crew yeah experience yes yes yes ah so very very good to see you I’m very happy I’m very happy nervous anything no no good no likely this CH not nervous at all two years ago I was not nervous until the start and then 1 hour before uh the the start I started to be so nervous this time no you know with the experience uh that’s a good thing also to sleep the night before if you’re not nervous you sleep deeply and it’s a great Advantage I think Al all the week I slep very well you slept good all week very well yeah I slept very good yes what did you um what did you do since you’ve been in town have you done any riding yeah recover rides like 1 hour 30 minutes to hours very slow pace like not even 50 m per hour and flat some Sprinter just to you got to get the legs opened up yeah yes to to give the leg and the your had warming up oh that’s sh all right so they cheering somebody is it 12 yet yes yeah it is 12 okay so they must have launched out the first people okay I’m going to take the microphone from you yeah I want to kiss my wife kiss your wife good good good Karina are you nervous just a little bit but we have everything ready yeah yeah we’re in good shape so now we just have to have good luck that’s all I think George is very good luck cuz last time I saw him I won vooodo last race I show him my one 500 you you should be very good luck for me all right well let’s let’s continue thate you din Italian dinner I’m going to go for you good also no I’m vegan but but I’m not but I will be the okay okay well I’ll sample something vegan Italian okay so I don’t know if you if I told you but she’s from Pittsburgh and we’re going we’re going back we’re going back in August so maybe I going in August you probably be in Italy yes time which day in August middle of the month I’d be in Italy for sure well good good that you’re going back to Italy a lot of family still there yes I have my two parents and okay no sister lives in Germany so and we’re going also to Slovakia that’s the original country of my wife and she has a lot of we have a family reunion there and then I want to try to set the record from Bratislava that’s the capital of Slovakia to Rome that’s the capital of Italy of course it’s about 750 miles well getting out of Slovak Slovak it’s going to be a lot of mountain ridges to get over right yes I’ve been to 3s yes but then it’s flate and then I have to cross the up andini mountains you don’t go so up so it’s a flattish route let’s say yeah okay I want I want you to start concentrating on the race thank you so much good luck to you sir thank you so much all right oh my God Chuck how are you sir to see you hi how are you how are you hey Colin hey man how are you sir B hey you’re in the pink aren’t you yeah I just I just wanted to say um to my girlfriend these are the these two folks crewed for me in 2009 Furnace Creek the the very very windy year thank you thank you I like your head oh these are microphones I just didn’t want to put it in her face but these are microphones what’s your name I’m Anna hover hi Anna tell me about your team and your charity we are from Meridian Mississippi I am with Ed abdella team abdella go Ed go go go go yes he is the first Mississippian to ever attempt RAM and he’s going to be the first Mississippian to complete it that’s right he is going to be yes good positive energy there we’re and we’re keeping it that way team Mell is strong we um he attached Hope Village for children to the race so we have a very lofty goal to raise $1 million for Hope Village for children right it serves all 82 counties of the state of Mississippi it takes in children that are WS of the state they come in with trauma and they leave with hope and dignity some of these kids go to college whate are we talking about from birth to 18 however they also have transitional housing there are so many facets to this group home y’all I didn’t know I just went and T it in October I’m from Meridian and I had no idea it’s of the largest employers in Meridian Mississippi it employs over 100 people that’s significant for a Meridian for a Mississippi town and they have the transitional housing the kids can go to Junior College or regular College have jobs it’s it’s a beautiful beautiful facility has your razer taken off yet he has not we leave at 12:50 p.m. oh 12:50 okay because that’s my that’s my friend there uh uh race number R 121 so I I just want to make sure I’m not I don’t miss him don’t okay thank you for telling us about your charity also founded by actress CA Ward she’s uh Emy Golden Glove winner M Mississippi she did that there you go thank you thank you good luck to you got to put the plug that’s right good luck to your guy thank y’all good luck to your guy make it to so this is a pretty good way to get there next up isan p this a gentleman we’ve seen around quite a bit he erases a lot of ultra stuff around this country he’s finished Ram as a two person partip langu relativ [Music] Lang we wen’t getting on the road here in just a few seconds we’d have he’s going to be rolling in five 4 3 2 one good luck got it David thanks for walking up and introducing yourself I with all these people here there’s no way I would have found you so which one how many how many solos is this for you this is my start you what e e start so yeah yeah we’re going for it’ll be six finishes I got two dnf so yeah first place we’re going for the old guys you and me right yeah yeah we might be the same age I’m 58 no 56 so we’re right there yeah yeah awesome um what did you learn from your two dnfs uh you know first one was my first race so hydration and keep moving and my second one was just my body fell apart and so I’ve worked hard in the gym to get stronger and come back and be strong shoulder TR trashed and wrecked my shoulder previous and it just was not strong enough so you should be good yeah yeah well we don’t have much time I know you got to roll out y I wish you a lot of luck thanks and uh Tailwinds Tailwinds you good luck thank you nice meeting you you too well that was David Hy and we were actually leaving and he walks up and introduces introduced himself to me cuz I wouldn’t have found him in this crowd so that was very very nice of him to take 2 minutes out of his 5 minutes so okay we’ll see you guys up the road this is soo racer who has raised how you doing Pete who you here to see anybody in particular not really I you know I mean been so long I don’t know anybody that’s in it we’ll see on Saturday along with yeah well it gets in your blood and you can’t stay away out here George is also a ram racer he owns a shop just down the way not too far called rev Cycles so if you’re looking uh for little bik m a new ride just look damn good that’s the guy to go see right there that’s that’s crazy and totally and totally impr prompted they’ll they’ll be L up at the door when you open up the next day so how you been Pete I haven’t seen you in a while good yeah yeah it’s always are you still doing your Wednesday we stopped that there’s a BC and there’s an AC yeah yeah before Co after so B B is doing a Tuesday ride and then there’s a group that goes out on Thursday I wonder if if I saw him today on Melrose cuz I thought I saw him but it didn’t of about yeah okay so when you said you’ve been you’ve been away for a while how long would you say you’ve been away uh the last time I did Ram in the team was 2008 2008 so it’s been a long time yeah yeah yeah so I just come down here it’s not very far away was that an eight person that the year three times an hanging out somewhere around here here of uh Jessica doesn’t know you H the solo average speed across the country for how many years 20 27 27 years yeah Kristoff stard yeah yeah but yeah you held it for a long long time and that was so impressive but that was so impressive did you did you contact him when you said hey that congrats um well he’s he’s not here no no no of course not this but way back no but 2014 I was on a it was on a Wednesday when he was going to finish because I was following it online yeah and so I called I got a hold of the organizers they took they took the phone handed it to him he was on the finish line on the finish line so I got to congratulate oh my God that’s awesome it was great I mean I I have told people that and they they can’t believe that it stood for that long that’s how amazing you were they kept changing the course and it just got tougher and tougher you know 86 we used we were using the freeways freeway shoulders you know how humble you are you’re giving everyone else an excuse for not breaking the record but yeah I would imagine urbanization had some play more stop signs more traffic lights H course you know and you got to get lucky with the weather yes the weather is always the X Factor me if you get lucky and you get Tailwinds have a good time to get caught by thunderstorms and stuff any any of that stuff when I when I did it in 2007 everyone complain prior to the race all the headwinds in Kansas and I had Tailwinds for a little while I got on my TT bike and I had Tailwinds and I’m like and I’m telling the crew vehicle move to the side exactly so they were shadowing you because they were blocking my Tailwind exactly yeah we had to do that for my brother in ‘ 85 right had a huge tailwind and we had we just had to back off cuz otherwise we would have shadowed him yeah you were blocking his Tailwind how I haven’t seen your brother in a long long time color that’s why yeah yeah it was always fun to ride with both of you on a Wednesday the benefits of being unemployed and you were retired of course yeah speaking of um urbanization The Grand Tour had a 400 mile course and it was you know the goal was always to make it in 24 hours yeah but that continued to urbanize and urbanize and urbanize and I never got it I could never get the 24 hour Mar on it I appreciate you okay it’s good to see you guys it is always good to see you yep yep yep I’m going to take the mic from you yeah okay and well just wish these folks in a good oh [Music]