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Re: uphill/downhill

To: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Subject: Re: uphill/downhill
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:43:53 -0700
I'll definalely vote for that.............
Ed

Dave Dahlgren wrote:

> sure makes me a fan of same day return runs... Gotta love the return run down
> hill with a tail wind !  What if the return runs were scheduled at 5:00 pm or 
>so
> depending on how many cars and then just put them in impound so they can be
> teched the next day and we all can leave at a normal time?
> Dave
>
> Dan Warner wrote:
> >
> > It has seemed to me that most every car i have worked on went slower in the
> > morning return run than they qualified
> > 
>*****************************************************************************
> > ***********
> > Dave's statement is true to a large extent. This is why we say that in the
> > morning you are running uphill. In the old two way run days it was easier to
> > visualize. Still, in these days of the same way runs we see the early 
>morning
> > runs being slower than the previous day.
> >
> > For example, in 1998 we ran a 253 mile to qualify about 3 pm. The following
> > morning we ran a 249 mile to complete the record, we ran around 8:15 that
> > day.
> >
> > Dan Warner

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