You forgot to mention that part about not talking to anyone because you
forgot to stop for a toothbrush.
-----Original Message-----
From: Navid Kahangi [mailto:navid@xperformance.com]
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:39 PM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Travel time to "big" events
OK, you guys are way off. Here's what I do:
San Diego:
- Get off work the usual time on Friday
- Pick up kids
- Pick up trailer
- Pick up car at home
- Pack cloths in a rush (forget to pack toothbrush)
- Get on the road, O... 8ish
- Fight traffic getting out of town
- Haul ass over 152 and grapevine with a 1/2 ton truck pulling a big ol'
gooseneck trailer
- Pull into Irvine around 2am
- Listen to parents giving me the guilt trip about coming late and
leaving early
- Leave Irvine, O...way too early
- Pull into Qualcom barely in time to register and tech
- Pray that your run group is not early in the morning so you can get a
couple of course walks in before you run
Needless to say I've had great success with this routine (missed second
place by a cone in 2002, hit cones on every runs of the first day in
2001).
Topeka:
- Head out of town, O...say around 11:00am on Thursday
- Haul ass all the way to the border of Wyoming the first day
- Get up god awful early and hit the road on Friday
- Synchronize your bladder and your tank to minimize stops
- Hit Friday afternoon traffic in Denver
- Pull into Topeka way late on Friday
- Wake up too early on Saturday to make it to registration and tech for
the pro
- Spend the entire week recovering from the trip there, just in time for
your trip back
First day, 3 runs, 3 cones. 'nough said!
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Josh Sirota
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:50 PM
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Travel time to "big" events
>
> Man, you are all painting a pretty negative picture!
>
> For San Diego, I have no problem leaving early Friday morning (say,
6am),
> and
> arriving late afternoon. Enough time to walk the course and get
dinner
> before
> going to bed. Sunday night is a late night, plan on getting to bed at
> 2am-3am
> (unless your trailer's axle catches on fire, in which case you'll be
> spending
> the night in Burbank. That was '99.)
>
> For Topeka, it's 24-25 hours of driving. 2 nights going out. Coming
> back,
> thanks to two time zone changes in your favor, you can leave Topeka at
6am
> or
> 7am and still get back during daylight on Sunday night, with a healthy
> night's
> sleep on Saturday night. Best done with a co-driver, but it's still a
> comfortable drive.
>
> All of that is possible towing a trailer without REALLY pushing it. I
> didn't
> realize everyone else was so slow.
>
> (But two hands worth of fingers isn't enough time to count the number
of
> times
> our caravan has been delayed due to problems with someone's trailer,
or
> construction, etc ...)
>
> Josh
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