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Chris Ragsdale on the podium

Congratulations to SVC sponsored rider Chris Ragsdale for his impressive win at the Furnace Creek 508 ultramarathon cycling race last weekend. The FC508 bills itself as “The Toughest 48 hours in Sport” with a race course that is 509.58 miles long and has a total elevation gain of over 35,000′, while crossing ten mountain passes, and stretching from Santa Clarita (just north of Los Angeles), across the Mojave Desert, through Death Valley, to Twenty Nine Palms. An already difficult event was made even more challenging this year by DNF-inducing winds gusting to 60mph+ (and not tailwinds, either!).

Chris powered his Cervelo to an outstanding sub-30 hour finish time and a more than 30 minute margin of victory. SVC co-owner Mark Thomas, who witnessed the performance first hand from the crew van, called it “Awesome, just awesome.”

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