The inaugural race around Slovenia or RAS was held on May 10th -12th, 2007, with the start and finish line in Postojna. Marko Baloh, Fredi Virag and Juré Robic came up with the idea and Andrej Berginc, Virag's crew chief from RAAM 2003, went to work organizing the race. Slovenia is too small to only go from one side to the other — Baloh holds the east-west record of 9 hours 34 minutes. Berginc embraced the idea of racing around Slovenia. The total length of the race is 1,146 km (712 miles) with almost 10,000 m of climbing.

The UMCA sanctioned the race as the 2007 European Ultracycling Championship — Juré Robic, ramping up for RAAM 2007, won the championship. RAS is also a RAAM qualifier — Christopher Strasser, Bojan Kos and Ales Luznar qualified for RAAM.

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Results

Rider	Time	km / h
Juré Robic, SLO	38:01	30,1
Marko Baloh, SLO	40:41	28,2
Christoph Strasser, AUT	45:53	25,0, RAAM Qualified
Bojan Kos, SLO	48:00	23,9, RAAM Qualified
Ales Luznar, SLO	52:00	21,5, RAAM Qualified
Rob Kish, ZDA	54:39	21,0
Franjo Prepadnik, SLO	55:44	20,6
Fredi Virag, SLO	56:11	20,6
Eris Zama, ITA	57:46	19,8
Ivan Zupec, SLO	56:24	19,6
Zvonko Hasemali, SLO	58:49	19,5
Tomaz Percic, SLO	61:00	18,8
Zlatko Drofenik, SLO	61:14	18,7,
Ajda Opeka, SLO	62:17	18,4, woman, RAAM qualified