Post-Race Interview with KRMS Radio on Race Across America

The Show-Me State Suprise

07.06.2009 - Osage Beach, Mo. / Halethorpe, Md. - While completing the 2009 Race Across America, the Adventures For The Cure team received a fun suprise while riding near Osage Beach, Missouri located between Camdenton (Time Station 31) and Jefferson City (Time Station 32 and Missori's capital city).

Unbeknowst to the team, David Harrity along with about 30-50 viewers were watching online via the Ustream.TV based webcam live feed that supplied an audio and video stream as the riders and crew made the 3,021 mile journey. Harrity said, "I was watching the video and faintly heard the radio station's call sign announced so I thought this could be cool way to give a pick-me-up to the team. So, I opened up another webpage, searched online for the station and when I found it, I called the station and told them the story of Adventures For The Cure". The crew and riders continued on not knowing what was to come next. Harrity added, "Once I got through, I became more worried that they were going to turn down the volume or turn off the radio; but luckily it all worked out."




(Screen capture of Adam Driscoll while "Ride Like The Wind" is playing across Osage Beach, Missouri)


Click here for the original Ustream.TV feed that played during Race Across America and hear the crew's reactions to the radio dedication.

The Post-Race Interview

Afterwards, Rance Burger, who serves as KRMS News-Talk Radio's Sports Director, contacted Adventures For The Cure, to learn more about the organization and interviewed Adam Driscoll on June 30, which was later played back over the air and online at http://www.1150krms.com/.

Here is the audio file and text transcript of the KRMS News-Talk radio interview:
KRMS-Radio_and_Adventures_For_The_Cure_2009-RAAM.mp3

Adam Driscoll and Patrick Blair wanted to ride their bicycles across the nation in record time. The college friends from Maryland competed in the two-man division of Race Across America to raise money for children with diabetes.

Driscoll says he and Blair started their own non-profit group to raise money through running and cycling events.

"Let's try to do what we love to do, which is biking and running, to help other people. So we said, 'well, let's bike from our house in Baltimore to Ocean City, Maryland and back.' We did that in two days, it was 320 miles, and we ended up raising $8,000. We met so many incredible people, so many crazy things happened from it, so we said that each summer we want to try to do some adventure to help other people," Driscoll explained.

The Adventures for the Cure riders rode 6,500 miles in 2006 and made an award winning documentary of the journey. In 2008, a four man team rode the 3,000-mile Race Across America. This year, Driscoll and Blair won the two-man division.

For Adam Driscoll, the rides against diabetes are personal; Driscoll is a Type 1 diabetic and wears a blood sugar monitor on the bike.

"...which actually measures my sugar continuously, and then I have an insulin pump, so continuously I always have insulin in, and continuously I can always tell what my sugar is. The technology really helps out with that," Driscoll said.

Adventures for the Cure won several fans in Osage Beach as their support vehicle rolled through town blasting "Ride Like the Wind" by Christopher Cross on 93.5 Rocks. A friend called our station to request the song.

Driscoll was on the bike when listeners in Osage Beach on Highway 54 started honking and waving.

"I didn't know what was going on at first, and then they told me as soon as I stopped riding. I was like, 'Oh! Thats so cool!' because I'm like, 'why is everyone beeping at me?' they were all waving and friendly and stuff and I'm like, 'this is awesome,'" Driscoll laughed.

The motivational song from 1980 pushed Driscoll and Blair through the lake area and on to their home state of Maryland, and the finish line in first place.

Adventures for the Cure will also donate some of the money they raised in RAAM to a home for disabled children in Kenya.

Adventures For The Cure would like to again say thanks to Rance Burger, KRMS News-Talk Radio and the Viper Broadcast Group for allowing us to rock with them.