Crew

Latest Update, Sept 15th, 2007

Crew

Jérome Pruneau

Deborah Luhrs

Certified Massage Therapist

Deb lives in Middletown, RI. She is a certified Massage Therapist. Patrick knows her since 2004 during BMB (Boston-Montreal-Boston). She’s been a crew member during his solo attempt in 2005, as well as during the Team RAAM in 2006. She is as addicted to RAAM as Patrick is, and she is looking forward to crossing that $#@$@^$@$# finish line in Atlantic City.

Rider support

Jérome, ethnologist of 36 years old, is married and lives in the Guadeloupe Island (Carribeans) since 2002. He is Assistant-Professor at the University of Antilles and Guyane. Besides his crew job, he will conduct a scientific study where the goal will be the observation of a small group of people, i.e the crew, put in kind of extreme conditions.

Bike and Auto Mechanic

Christian, a young retired Frenchman of 58 years old, is married and has 2 girls (Marjolaine and Claire). He lives in Bagnols, France.

Bike and Auto Mechanic

Thierry lives in Florac, Lozere with his wife Regine and his daughter Maud, 15. Former judoka and soccer who has recently switched to Ultra Cyclism (3rd place at the International Challenge of Latin Region "CIRL" in 2005), after RAAM he plans to do Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP), among many other races.

Rider support

Fred lives in Limoges, France, with his wife and 3 children. He is an OR nurse at the main hospital. UltraCyclist, he did the Texas 500 in 2005. One of his goal is to do RAAM in a 4-man team in the near future. Well, he’s going to learn a lot this year.

John McClellan

Behind-the-scene crew

Robert Miller

Doctor and Crew Chief

Rob, 34 years old, attended Medical School at the University of California at San Francisco. Currently he is in his fourth year of training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Already the Team Doctor and Crew Chief in 2005, he’s back this year to helping Patrick covering the full distance.

Christian Valentin

Thierry St Leger

Fred Ricol

Board member of ARC and Enthusiastic supporter

John is the President and CEO of Sprague Energy Corp. based in Portsmouth, NH. He is on the board of the Directors of Nashoba Learning Group, Inc, a non-profit school for children with autism. He is also on the board of Directors of Athletes Racing for Charity, Inc. John lives in Concord, MA with his wife Liz and their 5 children. And despite his extremely busy schedule, he finds the time to ride his bike and train for ultra-distance. And he does pretty well indeed, as he finished second at the Boston-Montreal-Boston (BMB—750 Miles) in 2005.

Rider support

Estelle lives in Belmont, MA. She is currently a seventh grader. As active as her parents, she also does ballet and is a member of a swim team named Squids (oh well!) since several years now. She is looking forward to crewing for her dad, and also will give you some information related to this project (newsletters, school’s project) on her webpage.

Estelle Autissier

Damien Autissier

No1 supporter

Damien lives in Belmont, MA. He is in first grade. Although he knows everything about RAAM, he is a little too young to be part of the crew (he talks way too much!). However, as the No1 supporter, his role as a behind the scene crew member is unmatched.

Rider support

Anne-Cecile lives in Belmont, MA and is Patrick’s wife for almost... 20 years (May 30th). She works as an assistant-teacher at the International School of Boston (formerly Ecole Bilingue) in Arlington, MA. Despite a busy schedule between her work, and taking care of her children, she finds time to run marathons. New York in 1998 was the first one. Since then, she ran Paris, Boston, Cape Cod and Philly. She will join the crew team at the end of the first week of race. She is both anxious and excited to see what is exactly RAAM.

Anne-Cecile Autissier

Rider support

Sylvie is originally from Quebec, a small part of France on the American continent. She’s been living in los Angeles, CA for 15 years, and moved to Boston several years ago. She works as a teacher at the International School of Boston. She organizes during the summer road-trips for teenagers all over the United States. She is looking forward for her next RAAM adventure, and will sure be a huge help for the last 1,000 miles of the race.

Sylvie Gori

Webmaster

Hervé, computer guru of 38 years old, is married to Francoise and has 2 children. He lives in Boston since November 2003 and plans to create a company. I met him during the kick off of the project last March at the Langham Hotel in Boston in 2005. His primary duty will be to give you information on a daily basis of my progression, via this website and by email. Moreover, he will be in charge of the navigation, thanks to the GPS system provided by DeLorme.

Hervé Seux