With some determination, caffeine, and maybe a co-driver, you can do most
in 2 vac. days, leave after work thursday, and try to get in 300-500 miles
before crashing for a few hrs. Then catch the remaining 800 to 1000 miles
on friday. Get in late it friday, and do early registration and tech sat.
morning. This is not necessarily the best method for optimum driver
performance - at the harrisburg pro sat. afternoon (left from dallas at
about midnite thursday - trying to get the new tow vehicle prepped) I was
trying to red light, but could not react and launch fast enough - even when
I thought I was leaving before the last yellow came on :)
I did a few all night marathons last year , left on friday noon to go to
Lemoore, Harrisburg, and more relaxed trips to Petersburg, Peru, and
Wendover. You can normally leave pretty early from a Pro on Sun. - it's
much better in that respect than a tour. Also the 12 runs help make up
for the lack of course walking time/energy.
Sounds like an all win deal to me....
Stan
At 10:39 AM 1/7/01 -0500, Karl Witt wrote:
>At 09:46 AM 1/7/2001, you wrote:
>>There has been much talk about Pro Solo lately. Personally, the only reason
>>I am not at every one is the location that the event has been chosen to be
>>held at.
>>
>>If I drove to my 2 closest events (Peru and Petersburg) to qualify for
>>Nationals and drive to Topeka, I am looking at over 4800 miles. Divide that
>>by averaging 60 mph (fuel, food and bathroom breaks) and I am looking at 80
>>hours, or ALL of my vacation time just driving to the event.
>
>Your logic above is flawed. Just because you're on the road for 12 hours in
>a day doesn't mean you're burning 12 hours of vacation time. count on two
>days travel time for each event. Leave sometime thursday to get there
>before practice starts/registration on friday. Leave after the event Sunday
>to get home sometime monday. Stop at hotels as needed. so basically those
>two pros use up 4 days of vacation. that still leaves you six days of vaca
>for the profinale and nationals. I'm sure you don't want to do anything
>other than race on your vacations ;)
>
>
>>Does the location of the Pro's effect anyone else's participation?
>
>Nope, I'm doing Ft Myers, Petersburg, Peru, Oscoda (or whereever it ends
>up) as well as the Ayer (local) and Peru Tours. I might also be going to
>the texas tour. All of this from the boston area :)
>
>Karl
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