Translated by Wayne Kostman . This video translation is sometimes paraphrased and always at least condensed. Those of you who need to know every last word can study German for ten years, then try to wade through the thick Austrian dialect in this video. The first race took place in 1982. The course is 5,107 kilometers long.
Riders sleep very little.
These two men, Peter Reingruber and Gephardt Patzer, are preparing his body for the race. He is a former racer himself and is a racing sport insider. The training for the RAAM began many months back in Austria. Here Franz is in the middle of a 24 hour training ride on the roads outside of Vienna. He is taking tests to study the effects of various nutrtional systems.