Jerry Schemmel

Listen to "Jerry Schemmel From Godspeed The Race Across America" on Spreaker. The inspiration to overcome breathes life into "GODSPEED" as it chronicles a first-time race team - Jerry Schemmel, noted author, speaker and broadcaster for the Colorado Rockies and Brad Cooper, a eleven-time Ironman triathlete - as they compete 24 hours a day for seven days covering 3,000 miles of deserts, mountains and plains overcoming physical exhaustion, sleep deprivation and extreme mental anguish competing in the world's most difficult cycling race - The Race Across America. Pedaling 168 hours non-stop across 12 states from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans, Schemmel and Cooper embark on the journey of a lifetime - a race that would provide an extreme test of physical endurance and dependence on faith, all for the greater purpose and personal calling to raise money for the orphans of Haiti.