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May 29, 2019
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Friday 2-15
for Today Saturday 2-13 Outlook Mainly fine with high cloud.
Ride of his life! By Bill McElhinney Blenheim builder and amateur cyclist, Craig Harper, leaves today to travel to the United States for an endurance solo bike race billed as the toughest in the world. The Race Across America starts on June 11 US Pacific time (June 12 NZT), a gruelling non-stop bike race that pits 39 of the world’s top solo endurance cyclists against each other. They will cycle across 12 states in a non-stop 3000 mile (4828km) route from America’s west to east coasts. They’ll face extreme weather conditions in desert sections, and will climb a total height of 175,000 feet (53km) over the route – the height of the upper level of the Earth’s stratosphere, four times the cruising altitude of a long-haul commercial aircraft, or the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest six times. Continued on page 2. Blenheim cyclist Craig Harper will be riding day and night to complete the gruelling Race Across America.
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