RAW - The Finish
In the very early hours of Friday morning June 17, the Team Suicide Prevention racers crossed the 2022 Race Across The West finish line In Durango, Colorado. After a grueling 930+ mile route with over 40,000 feet of climbing, the team finished together at 3:50am local time, 2days 14hours and 46mins after leaving the start line in Oceanside, California on Tuesday, June 14th. During our epic ride, we had at least one racer on the road day and night to achieve this result.
It is safe to say that amongst the racers, the agreement is that this was hard. The target finishing goal was 60 hours to beat the 68 hour time cut-off and we finished in 62.75 hours. We’ll take it!!! Our racer’s training focus and the race plan execution by our crew made this result possible.
The Racers: (Average Age 67)
Bill Taitano
Tim Whiteside
Joel Kantor
Craig Jackson
The Crew:
Charlotte Lindley
Ashley Roberston - Crew Chief
Cynthia Whiteside
Carol Hughes
Marvin Lee - Crew Chief
Duvain Ash-Kenny
Without our amazing crew, this result would not have been possible. A special THANK YOU to them for all of the crazy hard efforts they put forth to keep us safe and racing day and night.
We invite you to look through our initial gallery of images that were captured during this journey that started on June 8th. Please check back for updates including video which will be processed and edited to tell our story of Race Across The West.
Team Suicide Prevention has a broad range of plans underway focused on our beneficiary organizations who include Hope Is Oxygen, The Coffee Bunker, and Hope Is Alive. But honestly, many of us have a bit of recovery left to do. It was certainly worth it as we race to raise awareness for suicide prevention and mental health issues.
Check out our first of several videos to come of our journey to the Start Line of Race Across The West.
Get yourself a cup of coffee or your favorite beverage and browse through our preliminary gallery of some of the images we captured during Race Across The West. Stay tuned for additional content for images and video.
