Race for Hope 2024

18/06/2024

🥳Ed and his crew have made it back home safely. Join us for a celebration tonight at Threefoot Brewing!!! We will have race t-shirts for sale.

15/06/2024

15/06/2024

Mississippi history has been made! The first Mississippian attempted the Race Across America solo.

Edward Abdella rode over 625 miles climbing mountains & plunging through deserts on his Bianchi specially fitted on an Infinity Bike Seat.

Despite his stubborn ways, Team Abdella pulled him off the bike due to breathing issues. Regardless how you calculate it, he won’t be the first Mississippian to complete RAAM - THIS YEAR. Seeking a professional medical opinion and keeping him safe simply caused too much time off the bike.

To know Ed’s past is to know one of the toughest and most charitable humans ever. He rides like a beast. To qualify for this race, he averaged 16 mph & completed The Natchez Trace 444 in just over 26 hours.

Ed nor his team are considering this shift in our journey as a loss. It’s been a lot of lessons and motivators.

Hope Village for Children is near & dear to our hearts. Efforts to support them continue.

Meanwhile, we gotta get The Flying Freight Train home. Prayers for safe travels, enlightening adventures, and health.

Personally, I didn’t expect to say - “This is just the beginning.” It is. Stay Tuned!

15/06/2024

MISSISSIPPI TO RAAM
June 14, 2024

RAAM Media 2 hits the road to Atlantic City tomorrow with the teams, but we got word from Racer 688, Ed Abdella’s crew that he was in need of some motivation! What better motivation than some RAAM fan comments to read to him?!

Ed qualified for RAAM multiple times at Natchez Trace 444, but finally decided that he wanted to tackle the big one and, with it, raise $1,000,000 for his charity! He’s not a guy who sets the bar low!

Ed’s media team wrote the following about him: “Ed Abdella is the first Mississippian to attempt the Race Across America. He is a teacher, veteran, and endurance cyclist. He is doing this for the veterans, his brothers that are no longer here, and to raise money for Hope Village. Hope Villiage is a therapeutic group home for children that serves all 82 counties of Mississippi. His goal is to raise 1 million dollars for them.

To donate text "race2024" to 243725”

They also sent along a photo of Ed honoring the history of UFO sightings in the desert southwest!

Race for Hope 2024 Magnolia Mouths Media

14/06/2024

❤️💛The Dusty Social Service Club is cheering for Ed!!! GO ED GO!!! 💛❤️😂 Have you ever seen a cuter human bike?! Watch until the end.

Edward Abdella
Race Across America

Ways to give:
Text “race2024” to 243725
Visit: https://www.hopevillagems.org/how-can-you-help/race-for-hope/

14/06/2024

🇺🇸If you wanna know how we KNOW how tough Edward Abdella is, read below 👇. He’s got this!!! 💪

We hope his military brothers and sisters are following him along Race Across America. Please “follow” and “share” this page to stay connected to the progress. ❤️💙

GO ED GO!!! 🚴 #688

Ed’s charity of choice for this race is Hope Village for Children. If you’d like to learn more and support this cause, visit:
https://www.hopevillagems.org/how-can-you-help/race-for-hope/

Text “race2024” to 243725

14/06/2024

Edward Abdella is participating in Race Across America with a goal of raising $1 million for Hope Village for Children. Hope Village is a nationally accredited residential care agency for kids who have been placed in the custody of CPS. Hope Village provides a loving home for kids who have
been abused, neglected, or abandoned. Hope Village is “home” to some of Mississippi’s most vulnerable. It is a place for hope and healing, and a future.

Ways to give:
Text “race2024” to 243725
Visit: https://www.hopevillagems.org/how-can-you-help/race-for-hope/

Race Across America

14/06/2024

Day 4! State #3!

14/06/2024

14/06/2024

As of 9 a.m. Central time Friday, Meridian cyclist Ed Abdella was 581 miles into Race Across America, a more than 3,000-mile road race from Oceanside, California, to Atlantic City,

13/06/2024

13/06/2024

Embeddable tracking application, live tracking event map for RAAM 2024, leaderboard coverage, including links to individual track history pages

13/06/2024

Ed will be participating from Arizona for trivia at Brickhaus Brewtique tonight!!!

13/06/2024

Make sure you follow for Hope 2024 over the next few days! Ed Abdella is rising money for Hope Village for Children.

HOW TO “FOLLOW” ED?
Throughout this race, we will be sharing regular updates and highlights on the “Race for Hope 2024” Facebook and Instagram as well as “Magnolia Mouths Media” pages. Please go ahead and “follow” these pages if you haven’t already. We encourage you to stay informed about Ed’s progress and all the exciting developments along the way.

LIVE TRACKING:
Visit www.raceacrossamerica.org. Scroll over “FOLLOW THE RACE” and you’ll see a dropdown menu that lists, “ROSTER & RACE COVERAGE,” “LIVE TRACKING.”

Click on Ed Abdella’s name and you’ll see a full report of his arrival date and time at each of the 55 time stations on the route. Time stations are spaced out over the route at approximately every 50 miles. The first time station is Borrego Springs, CA.

Become a RAAM “Dot Watcher”:
Each solo racer and each team has a tracker from TrackLeaders that transmits their position on the course and their current speed. Each solo racer and each team show as an individual dot on a map of the course. Access it by clicking on “LIVE TRACKING.”

13/06/2024

After 44 hours of riding we got him off the road!
Getting him a hamburger & milkshake while other team members get him cleaned up.

Don’t panic. The tracker will be still! He’s gonna get some good sleep in an actual bed out of the elements.

Meanwhile, the media crew is gonna break/get y’all caught up on what’s happened out here on the Race Across America!! 👀

13/06/2024

With temperatures reaching as high as 107 degrees, Meridian cyclist Ed Abdella left California and crossed the Colorado River into Arizona Wednesday afternoon in his bid to become the first

13/06/2024

Update ~

Ed’s still at it!!

Direct follow crews are changing shifts. Ed’s switching bikes for mountain climbing.

Our crew, , is so awesome. Of course Eli Carruthers, the mechanic, is pulling a double due to the bike switch. I could go on and on about the sacrifices & dedication amongst the crew.

But, y’all wanna know about Ed!
Edward Abdella is trucking along. He’s headed to Prescott, AZ. We are gonna get him cleaned up & put him down for a sleep!

Go Ed Go!!

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13/06/2024

The children of Hope Village wrote this to encourage Edward Abdella on his Race Across America! Please share this post to help Ed with his goal to raise money for the children of Hope Village for Children.

https://www.hopevillagems.org/how-can-you-help/race-for-hope/

12/06/2024

Big thanks to Clay and Laura Holladay for supporting Race for Hope 2024!!!! 🎉

12/06/2024

Edward Abdella at 8:43 PDT. He’s hot! Been on the bike 20 hours with only mini breaks.

12/06/2024

Come see us!! 11am- 2pm!!

12/06/2024

SPONSOR A STATE
If you are tracking Ed, he will be leaving CA and crossing over to Arizona very soon. Please consider sponsoring ARIZONA to raise money for Hope Village for Children. Ed and his crew started their journey yesterday from Oceanside CA to Atlantic City, NJ.

Ways to give:
Text “race2024” to 243725
Visit: https://www.hopevillagems.org/how-can-you-help/race-for-hope/
^ add “sponsor Arizona” in notes

Edward Abdella Hope Village for Children Race Across America