Equipment and Gear (Page 2).

Please see Race Support and Crewing Page.

For links to equipment manufacturers and places to shop, please go to Gear Links.

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Experimental and Eclectic Equipment List

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• Misting/Sprinkling Systems
  Succesfully used during the recent RAAM's to efectively lower racer ambient body temperature via water spraying & evaporation. The scale can be customized according to your needs/resources - from garden hand-pumped garden spritzer to motorpump-driven boom-mounted support vehicle dual misting monsters.
• Cooling Systems
  There is an increased interest in impproving human performance by controling (cooling) body core temperature. Normally the body cools blood by pumping it to the surface of the skin where heat is released into the air. Such method limits amount of blood available to carry oxygen to muscles, thus muscles cannot work as hard with less oxygen. RTX (Rapid Thermal Exchange) device, invented by Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn from Stanford University, draws heat of the body surface through a water-cooled steel plate in a hand-size glove-like device. Steel plate draws heat from blood in the hand, allowing cooler blood to recirculate, cooling other organs. Avacore Technologies had licensed this technology to market RTX.
• Oxygen
  Also succesfully utilized during RAAM's, specifically during high-altitude climbing segments. Clearly, it's expensive, cumbersome (both from the equipment procurement, handling, charging, and from the delivery mechanism aspects), potentially medically dangerous, and may not be legal (and definitely not in the spirit of the competition).
• Sun Shields
  Umbrellas (sometimes carried by the racer or rigged onto the body of the racer, sometimes carried by the pacer or crew member) were succesfully used during the strong sun conditions. Shield structures can also be rigged on support vehicles.
• Heat Shields
  Runners and cyclists have been known to place a layer of a space blanket under their insoles to fend off the heat, while cyclists also painted the bottoms of their cycling shoes (traditionally black) in reflective silver colors.

For links to equipment manufacturers and places to shop, please go to Gear Links.

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Ultra Mentor Gear/Brand Suggestions

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• Sunglasses
  Rudy Project
• Wetsuits
  Aquaman Triathlon
• Socks
  Wigwam Mills
• Racing apparel
  Zoot Hawaii
• Active wear
  Patagonia
• Wheels
  Zipp Speed Weaponry
• Heart Rate Monitors
  Polar

For links to equipment manufacturers and places to shop, please go to Gear Links.

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