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Racing in unusual places: Illuminate goes to Iran
- Updated: July 26, 2016
Home » News » Racing in unusual places: Illuminate goes to Iran
The men in the black kits were far from home, racing in a foreign — very foreign — place. And, to top that off, as they raced across Iran’s mountains, about a mile above sea level, the weather was starting to turn.
“Racing in Iran was difficult, and the weather was pretty crazy,” Chris Johnson, director of Team Illuminate, said. “On stage 2, there was a sudden storm as the riders were racing across a mountain plateau. From the team car you could see this dark reddish cloud suddenly move across the sky and then the winds started gusting. When the storm hit, I almost thought it would blow the riders off the road, but after five minutes, the skies cleared and the wet roads and soaked riders were the only evidence of what had just rolled through.” He described it as a scene from the movie “The Mummy.”
The Tour of Iran has run for 31 years, but this year was the first time that an American team took part. Johnson took his Illuminate team to the Middle Eastern country to participate in the race in mid-May.
But in some ways, the race itself was easier, at least simpler, than the process to get to Iran. The first problem the team encountered was …
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