Animation of 2004 Insight Race Across America (RAAM) race. Since we only have the timestation information from raceacrossamerica.org, we don't know how far a rider has gotten beyond the last timestation they hit. Between timestations, we treat each rider as moving at their average speed between those stations. This is why riders seem to all pile up at time stations near the end of the animation.

Solo riders are circles. Teams are squares.

The legend is now sorted by rider position in the race, with the leading rider in each category listed first. For further details about rider position, see the RAAM rider position webpage.

Most recent known positions:

The playback speed seems to vary greatly from machine to machine and browser to browser (runs very slow in some versions of IE). If it doesn't work for you, let us know.
Questions/comments on the animation, please email us. -- David Moore, Colleen Shannon, and Ryan Koga.

To contact race officials for RAAM, please see this RAAM contact list. For information about the route or time stations, including where riders will be on the course, click here.

The 2003 RAAM animation is also available.

Colleen, David and Ryan work for CAIDA, an Internet research group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego where they made this animation in their spare time.