June 29, 2004 (Atlantic City) – Canadians Jeff Rushton and Kevin Wallace
rode to a new RAAM record today in Atlantic City. The two-man team
delivered a record-breaking performance that reflected beautifully months
of disciplined training.

“We couldn’t have been a success if he hadn’t learned from past
experiences,” said Wallace. “To be over prepared and supported; it just ran
so smoothly.”

Their victory, however, took second place behind the reasons they rode in
this year’s RAAM. Their commitment to raising awareness and funds for
cancer charities motivated them to enter RAAM but their ambitions as ultra
endurance athletes caused them to speculate on breaking the record.

“We wanted to break the record and our actual plan was to cross the country
in six days and 14 hours but we took a wrong turn that cost us 15 minutes,”
conceded Rushton.

Coast to Coast Against Cancer completed the 2,959-mile race at 7:07 a.m.
EST in six days, 14 hours, seven minutes. Their average speed of 18.71 mph.
ousted the old record of 17.54 mph. set in 2001 by Discover Ceara’/PowerBar.

Hundreds of people gathered in Kennedy Plaza to welcome men’s solo winner,
Jurè Robic, across the finish line. Robic, a four-time national road
champion from Slovenia, trained to win this race and, at one point, was on
pace to break the current average speed record of 15.40 mph set in 1986 by
Pete Penseyres. Robic’s fast start out of San Diego smoothed out when it
was realized that second place Michael Trevino was less of a threat, but
then slowed down farther east perhaps due to rain and thunderstorms. His
solid form revealed nothing about his mental state during this year’s race
and this afternoon, a haggard but unusually lucid Robic graciously answered
numerous questions about his reasons for doing RAAM.

“I asked myself about this many times when they put me on the table like a
baby and spread my legs like a pregnant woman, then said you must sleep
like this for 45 minutes and then wake up and ride. I asked myself, is this
worth it?”

While all eyes were fixed on Robic, RAAM organizers handed him a mobile
phone where Robic’s wife, Petra, who is eight months pregnant with their
first child, anxiously waited to speak to her husband. A tearful Robic
shared a few words with his wife for the audience and the sentimental
audience responded with sighs followed by uproarious cheers.

Slovenia’s Jurè Robic finished the 2,959-mile 2004 Insight RAAM at 8:05
p.m. in eight days, nine hours, 51 minutes with an average speed of 14.66
mph.

Fans, friends, and curious onlookers cheered the all-women Vail B2B Divas
across the finish line at Kennedy Plaza at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon. Early
in the race, the Divas effortlessly pulled away from category contenders
Team Frauleins by outpacing the Frauleins with an average speed nearly two
miles per hour more. The Divas crossed the country in six days, 23 hours,
and 15 minutes at 17.69 mph.

Latest to withdraw from RAAM’s solo field is Italy’s Dino Nico Valsesia who
cited exhaustion as the cause. Valsesia withdrew at 6:37 a.m. EST in
Laurelville, Ohio.

All race times are in EST; stay tuned to www.raceacrossamerica.org for
up-to-the-minute race status.

Quotes:

Jurè Robic, solo
“I asked myself about this many times when they put me on the table like a
baby and spread my legs like a pregnant woman, then said you must sleep
like this for 45 minutes and then wake up and ride. I asked myself, is this
worth it?”
“For psychological training, once a month for the first four months of this
year, I stayed awake for a full 48 hours. This really helped me in the
race. I did not hallucinate this year.”
“When I came into the finish and I saw all the people applauding me, it
made me feel so happy that I made it.”
“I cannot explain what it means to me personally. I have trained all my
life for cycling. The army has been very supportive of me, and for them
this is a big victory.”

ExtraDistance, four-man
-Michel Bogli: “I don’t know if it was because all the days we rode before
the hills in West Virginia tired us, but this morning in West Va. was most
difficult.”
“This is my tenth RAAM and every single race is different. Our crew gave us
effort and motivation to finish the race.”
-Cassio Brandao: “I felt it was more difficult in California than in West
Virginia, probably because of the heat, perhaps because we were riding fast
30 minutes each.”
“I think the countryside that we saw; I think it was the most beautiful
thing I’d ever have the opportunity to see”
“I personally felt a little uncomfortable in Pennsylvania, with very narrow
roads with very heavy trucks. The route itself showed us places that we
Brazilians don’t have an opportunity to see, like Kansas and Missouri.”
-Jose Pinto Filho: “My son is affected with spinal muscular atrophy and he
gave me the inspiration to do this race. SMA is not a popular disease we
still have hopes for a good life for him.”
“In 2001, I did not expect to win, the only thing I wanted to do was to see
him (my son) at the finish line.”

Vail B2B Divas, four-person, all women
-Linda Guerrette: “We had a huge tailwind in Oklahoma, I never thought
Oklahoma would be exciting for me but it was.”
“This is an amazing country. The stuff we went through in West Virginia at
night had awesome descents.”
“In all dimensions you can imagine everyone was tested at one time.”
-Wendy Lyall: “There was a huge variety of terrain, extremes in
temperature, I felt quite unprepared for both.”
“Waking up in a new state and being told to get on the bike by new crew
members, the surreal experience of that magnifies what a huge thing this
is.”
-Heather Sappenfield: “I didn’t need to spend any more time on my bike than
was absolutely necessary.” “It’s a great experience that’s difficult
physically and mentally. The personal interaction between everybody there
together in an enclosed space trying to get this thing done and do it well
tests your mental and spiritual well being and asks ëHow big can you be?’.”
-Kerry White: “There were moments I wasn’t sure I would make it back on my
bike. I had muscle spasms in my hamstrings but overall I felt pretty good.”
“We had people on our crew who gave up two weeks of their job to come out
here and suffer. No sleep, no pay, running out of gas – panic after panic
but in the end, they got to be very good.”

Just Sweat – No Tears, four-person mixed
-Russell Carter: “About 1,000 kilometers out, a Saab came out of nowhere at
an intersection. I got a bruise and the adrenaline from that carried me on
in. I dislocated my finger but I just wiggled that in.”
“Concentrating on my finger made me think about my backside a little less.”
“Toughest part was the Appalachians. They didn’t look too bad on the map
but you got there at night and thought, “Where did these come from?'”
-Kevin May: “It’s a shame I missed out on seeing country by sleeping.”
“We worked in pairs on eight-hour shifts so we were riding about half the
time and sleeping half the time. Ideal would be to go back and see the
other half.”
-Brian Welsh: “We’re just a bunch of triathletes so we’re really pleased.
It’s fantastic to beat some elite riders. All the riders in this race are
very good; you don’t do RAAM without being very good.”
“We trained very hard and did a lot of work on our nutrition. As the race
wore on we didn’t fade, we kept a constant pace throughout.”
-Helen Wootton: “I’d love to come back. We’ve learned so much, it would be
a shame not to use that knowledge again.”
“I’ve done a lot of other endurance sports but the difference is, this will
provide me with more long-lasting memories. Most triathlons are over in a
flash but on this race, I’ve had a lot of time to think about the
experience and to deliberate.”
“This is not just about cycling; it’s also about being able to get up at 2
a.m. when the temperature is really cold after only 30 minutes of sleep
because the RV’s been shaking about.”

Coast to Coast Against Cancer, two-man
-Jeff Rushton: “We wanted to break the record and our actual plan was to
cross the country in six days and 14 hours but we took a wrong turn that
cost us 15 minutes.”
“We did two hours on and two hours off and our stops were timed on a stop
watch. We’d get off, eat, get massaged, our beds were ready and we’d get up
an hour later and spend a half hour getting ready, so it was very
structured.”
“The key thing for us was it was important to win but we wanted to win for
the reason why we are going this, to raise awareness for cancer charities.”
“A huge part of the motivation was that, at the beginning of each shift,
the guys read a dedication to someone who has succumbed to cancer. That
made all the difference and pushed us that much farther with more purpose.”
“Regardless of how hard you plan for the event, you’re going to have some
unbelievable emotional and physical highs and lows.”
-Kevin Wallace: “To actually race for something solidifies the purpose of it.”
“We couldn’t have been a success if he hadn’t learned from past
experiences. To be over prepared and supported; it just ran so smoothly.”

About Insight
Insight North America Inc. (“Insight”), title sponsor of the Insight Bowl
and the Insight Race Across America, is a leading single source provider of
IT products and services to businesses, government and educational
institutions in the United States and Canada. Insight’s offerings span the
entire IT lifecycle with more than 200,000 name-brand hardware, software
and peripherals – the largest selection in the industry – along with a full
line of services tailored to support the changing and unique neeeds of
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Enterprises Inc. (Nasdaq:NSIT), ranked No. 537 on Fortune Magazine’s 2004
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About Insight Race Across America
The Insight Race Across America has run every year since 1982, and since
2003 has followed its current route from San Diego, California to Atlantic
City, New Jersey. Outside Magazine has called it “The World’s Toughest
Race”, and others have described it as “The Tour de France done the
American way”. Top individual racers pedal roughly 350 miles per day,
burning 9,000+ calories and sleeping just 90 minutes. Two-person and
four-person relays comprising men and women race non-stop, covering over
500 miles per day. The race’s senior management and ownership is in the
hands of Race Director Jim Pitre, current co-holder of the 2-person 55+
Team record, and Head Official Lon Haldeman, two-time solo winner in 1982
and 1983. For further background and race history, please visit
www.raceacrossamerica.org.