TELUS is proud to be a leading sponsor of Team SKRAAM, who are racing their bikes to raise money for Sick Kids Hospital. The team is riding in the Race Across America (RAAM), and will be on their bikes 24 hours a day for 7-10 days, starting June 12, as they cover 5000 kilometres from California to New Jersey.
TELUS is sponsoring the two riders undertaking this tough journey, and their dedicated support and film crew, through a cash donation and by providing phones and aircards for the team's use during the race.
In addition, fans can watch the race unfold through mini-episodes on this website. Each day, new 'minisodes' will be edited and uploaded by the team from the road. Fans can also view photos of key events (also updated during the race), read the riders' and crew-members' daily blogs, see updates from the riders' Sick Kids pedal partners, and even correspond with the team through SMS. With all this coverage, it's almost like being with Team SKRAAM on the road!
- SKRAAM wrap up
- Wolf creek pass
- Crossing into Kansas
- Hot hot hot desert heat
- From the Mojave desert
- Our first official setback
- First day, first leg
- Departure
- Contemplating dedication to RAAM
- Doubts about making the grade.
- Temptations of Oceanside, CA
- Pre-race: road trip survival 2
- Pre-race: road trip survival 1
- Pre-race: training hard...
Christopher Bolton is an
actor, writer and television
producer in Toronto, Canada.
He began acting in his teens and has appeared in feature films, including Global Heresy and Killing Moon, as well as the Showtime television movies Hendrix and Our Fathers and appears frequently in television series. Bolton earned a Gemini nomination for his guest-starring role as 'Joey Williams' on the award-winning series Cold Squad. He is presently exec-producing, writing and starring in the hit series Rent-A-Goalie for Showcase.
Sam is a Toronto lawyer
at Aird & Berlis LLP with a
strong passion for competi-
tive endurance sports and volunteerism -
a passion fuelled by his personal experience
with cancer.
Originally a distance runner with Ontario championships and All-Canadian honours to his credit, Sam rebounded from three years of treatment for leukemia to compete as an elite duathlete (run-bike-run), becoming Canadian champion and a national team member in 2003. He currently balances his work-schedule with road cycling and cyclocross racing as a founding member of Open Access/GRG Road Racing, a masters cycling team.
A Showcase Original
Rent-A-Goalie revolves
around the exploits of
Cake (Christopher Bolton),
a hockey-mad,
recovered-from-
everything go-to guy,
who runs a rag-tag hockey
goalie rental service out
of Cafe Primo, a family-
owned coffee shop in Toronto's
Little Italy. Here, at this crazy crossroads of hockey culture, coffee culture and Italian-Canadian culture, Cake has finally found a home. He spends his time juggling friends and enemies, the ridiculous and the profound, while always trying to live by The Code – an ever evolving set of personal ethics, spiritual maxims and athletic credos that keep him on the straight and narrow.
