Amit samarth Race Across America 2017

Dr. Amit Samarth

ONLY INDIAN RAAM FINISHER AS WELL AS IRONMAN

• Endurance Athlete

• RAAM Solo Finisher – First Indian

Rookie

• 9 Ironman Race finisher

– 1 full Ironman

– 8 Ironman 70.3

• Winner of Thonnur Lake Triathlon

and Chennai Triathlon 2015

• Winner of Power Duathlon 2016 at

Hyderabad Triathlon

• Cycle Race• 3150 miles • Equals to 5040 kms• Non-stop race• It is not a stage race• 12 days x 24 hrs = 288 hours• Once the clock starts it does not stop until

the finish line

RAAM Solo

• Total climbing of 39850 meters

• That is 1,30,741 feet of climbing

• Amounts to climbing Everest 4.5

times

• From Borrego Springs to Cortez is

dry and arid part of RAAM – 1332

kms

• Total desert part is 990 kms from

Borrego Springs to Tuba City

• Maximum climbing is the last third

of the race

• From Time station 43 Chillicothe to

Time station 50 Hancock – 614 kms

Arizona Colorado West Virginia

Total climbing of 39850 metersEquals to climbing Everest 4.5 times

Preparations for Race Across America (RAAM)

Amit Samarth crewed for SeanaHogan in RAAM 2016

Key crew member for Seana Hogan in RAAAM 2016

2700 kms cycling in 5 days 5 hours

Nagpur – Hyderabad –Bangalore – Hubbali –Kolhapur – Pune –Aurangabad - Nagpur

Training in West Virginia

Training in Boulder

Photo Session and vehicle inspection before the race

Team Amit Samarth at Start Line

RAAM Solo is a Team Sport

With Mother, wife and Son

Crew was naive, innocent and novice and absolutely in Love with me

Team Amit Samarth working 24x7

RAAM Mastermind

Bhanu Rajgopalan

Tireless efforts of Nayak Family

RAAM Crew Chief

Vivitt Walve

Unwavering Support of ChetanThate

Team Amit Samarth• Jeetendra Nayak

• Renuka Nayak

• Ravindra Nayak

• Mridula Dunten

• Doug Dunten

• Rishabh Ingle

• Devesh

• Krish Srikanth

• Sachin Palewar

• Sachin Kuthe

• Mukul Tripathi

• Vijaya Samarth

• Suruchi Warwatkar

• Ayaan Samarth

• Anurag Kulkarni

• Anand Supner

• Dinesh Rathi

• Bhanu Rajgopalan

• Nikhil Chauhan

• Vivitt Walve

• Lalith

RAAM is Fun….!

At RAAM PresentationCeremony

From a School boy to RAAM Finisher

Grand Welcome back home….!

Grand Welcome back home….!

Press Coverage for Amit SamarthPost RAAM

Newspaper article written by Dr Swapna Khanzode, my school friend

Motivational Talk shows in schools and colleges