Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Cap Fear 1000 Rally--Plus 3 days

I spent some time last night putting new brake pads on the front of the bike.  I checked the rear and they looked good, so I decided not to change them before the rally.  Other than that, the maintenance is over for this trip...unless I decided to change the oil or something else...who knows.

We receive our rally bonus packs tomorrow night.  I am patiently waiting for them to appear in my email sometime around 7:00PM tomorrow night.  Once I get it then the real mind games begin.  I'll have to take some time inputting the locations into a spreadsheet, then download the spreadsheet information into Streets and Trips.  Once in S/T, I'll have a bunch of points on a map to decide from for my route. 

The interesting thing will be what limitations or possible requirements the rally master will put on the routing.  I heard that a couple years ago, he made it lowest points win.  We have also heard that there will be a limitation on the number of miles that can be ridden and maybe some time variables thrown in to keep speeding to a minimum (some of the guys haul major butt).  I will look at everything and see what pops for me. 

All my planning or thinking will probably be for practice because Danny Lee will be planning our route.  Maybe I will have a different view that he won't see or realize, who knows.  I am stoked and apprehensive all at once. 

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