{"id":5688,"date":"2013-06-24T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/06\/24\/cruzbike-maria-tops-raam-women-her-victory-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:58","slug":"cruzbike-maria-tops-raam-women-her-victory-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/06\/24\/cruzbike-maria-tops-raam-women-her-victory-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruzbike Maria Tops RAAM Women &#8211; Her Victory Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X22x1Wc-Jcw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the video above, you can watch a true recumbent bicycling ambassador in action! As some of you may have seen yesterday, Maria Parker, finished RAAM, in 11 days, 20 hours. She was the first female finisher by several hundred miles. And did so by being forced off the road for a full day because her support van and three of her crew members, were lost because of a car accident.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The recumbent and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cruzbike.com\/\">Cruzbike<\/a> communities rallied around this amazing 50-year old mother of four and she rewarded us with what is being called the biggest comeback in the history of RAAM!! She showed all of us that her heart was as strong as her very f a s t \u00a0machine. Too exciting!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 Yahoo Maria!!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>btw: In case you missed it,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/04\/02\/podcast-50-yo-cruz-bike-maria-to-do-2013-raam-for-sister\/\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0is the interview she and I did just before her epic effort!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video above, you can watch a true recumbent bicycling ambassador in action! As some of you may have&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/06\/24\/cruzbike-maria-tops-raam-women-her-victory-speech\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruzbike","category-uncategorized","category-recumbent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1tK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5679,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/09\/20\/up-close-and-personal-2-minutes-with-raam-female-winner-maria-parker\/","url_meta":{"origin":5688,"position":0},"title":"Up Close and Personal (2 minutes) with RAAM Female Winner, Maria Parker","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Her bike? 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