Screenshot of race positions as of around 4 p.m. on June 20, 2022

Closeup of race route through Bloomington.

Image from RAAMmedia. Nicole Reist cycles through Arizona in the 2022 RAAM.

Looking east on 3rd Street just east of intersection of 3rd and the SR45/46 bypass.

Sometime early Tuesday evening, the leader in the Race Across America (RAAM), is projected to pedal through Bloomington, Indiana.

The RAAM is a 3,079-mile west-to-east bicycle race across the United States.

As of 4 p.m. Monday, the overall leader was Nicole Reist, who has solid credentials, as the RAAM’s first woman finisher in 2016 and 2018.

As of 4 p.m. Monday, Reist had 2,045.5 miles behind her, after starting in Oceanside, California six days earlier. That left 337.7 until the Bloomington time stop, and another 1,033.5 miles to go until the finish line in Annapolis, Maryland. Continue reading “Tuesday evening: Leader in cross-country bicycle race to cruise through Bloomington” →