I received this by email today about the upcoming Furnance Creek 508 bicycle race that I will be participating in.

The 2007 Furnace Creek 508, “the toughest 48 hours in sport” and the world’s biggest and most prestigious ultracycling race, is coming up on October 6-8. There’s a record field size of 223 racers. Here are the stats:

95 solo racers (12 women and 83 men, including one tandem, two fixed gear, and two recumbents)

27 2x teams = 56 2x racers (1 mixed two tandem team, 3 men’s recumbent teams, 1 mixed recumbent team, 7 mixed teams, and 15 men’s teams)

17 4x teams = 72 4x racers (1 mixed tandem team, 6 mixed teams, and 10 men’s teams)

Total of 223 competitors: 127 rookies and 97 veterans; 41 women and 182 men

Participants by Country: Austria-2, Belgium-1, Brazil-1, Canada-5, Denmark-3, Finland-1, France-3, Italy-1, Mexico-1, Sweden-2, UK-2, and USA-202.

Participants by US State: AZ-5, CA-151, CO-5, CT-1, FL-1, ID-1, IL-2, KS-1, MA-2, MN-1, NC-2, NV-5, NY-4, OH-3, OR-6, PA-2, SD-1, TX-3, UT-2, VT-1, WA-9, WI-3, and WY-2.

Online roster:
http://www.the508.com/2007web/2007roster.html Note: the todem for our team is “Prarie Dog”

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