Bond Almand completes the Pan Am cycling challenge, setting a new record time and spending a week in Alaska.
Bond Almand poses at the end of his record-setting Pan Am ride, which included a week spent in Alaska in early September. (Photo provided by Bond Almand) While Bond Almand can’t pinpoint exactly when he found out about the Pan Am cycling challenge and the record time it’s been completed in, it was something he’s dreamed about for the past decade. “It’s always been the pinnacle of sport for me,” he said.
“A lot of people think the Tour de France is the pinnacle of cycling, but I’ve always been attracted to the longer riding and this was one of the longest routes in the world you could do, so that’s what really attracted me to it.” The Dartmouth College junior, who grew up near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, set out on Aug. 31, 2024, and completed the challenge Nov. 15. Almand set a record time with more than nine days to spare. The Pan Am route goes from the most northern point in North America to the most southern point in South America and can be traversed either way. His desire to attempt to make history brought him all the way to the shores of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to embark on his long-awaited journey. “It starts in Alaska, which is somewhere I’ve always wanted to go,” Almand said. “I’d never been to Alaska before and Latin America was an allure to me too because I know a little bit of Spanish, but not that much, so that exploration aspect was an allure as well.” With the start delayed at Prudhoe Bay, Bond Almand's record-setting Pan Am ride included a week spent in Alaska. (Photo provided by Bond Almand) His stay in the 49th state wound up being longer than he had originally planned, by an additional three days. “When TSA searched my bike box when I was flying up, they took everything out and failed to put everything back in, so I was missing a piece to my bike when I got to Prudhoe Bay and was stuck there for a couple of days waiting for the new part to come in,” Almand sai
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