Colin24
IBA# 446
Ack! Ignore me as well. As of this post rider have a tad over 51 hours to be back to the CP. I was shorting them a full day.
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Okay, time for another favorite anecdote. (I must be on a roll today or sumthin!)Thanks my feline friend for figuring out where I went foggy.
So there I was, day 1 of Leg 3 of the 2013 IBR. Out of the gate I had hovered up all the bonii in the SF Bay area and I was heading north for Vancouver. I had been running a couple hours with another rider chatting on the CB before we split an hour before I crossed into Oregon.
This turned out to be the first time I was able to review my planned route for the rest of Leg 3 since leaving the checkpoint that morning. So I start doing the math in my head. Okay todays Tuesday so once I get to the hotel for the night and considering I have to be in Pittsburg on Friday 9am so that's X days (approx). Then I look at the distance I need to travel do the math.
I can't remember the exact numbers but suffice it to say the answer I came up with was short on time for the route I had planned by about a days worth of riding. Crap, did I screw the pooch on my route plan? Is my math off? I mean the North Loop on Leg 3 of 2013 didn't have much wiggle room for different bonii and a bunch of other people were doing it so it must be possible! So I did the math again, I was short again. So I started to re-plan my route to drop some bonii. This didn't work either as I realized I would have to turn right and head for Pittsburg RIGHT NOW just to make the final checkpoint window. And that didn't make any sense.
WTF!!!! For the next 3 hours as I drove through the beautiful forested mountains of Oregon I repeatedly (in a mild state of panic) kept re-planning and re-doing the math trying to figure out how I could make this leg happen. At times I was even holding my hand up and counting off the fingers as I walked through the days of the week. But every time I came up a full day short. I was starting to freak out that I had made an epic route planning blunder and was now watching my 2nd IBR spiral into DNF.
It took a little over 3 hours before I finally clued into the fact that it was indeed Monday and not Tuesday. Did the math again and it finally all worked. Actually rechecked my work several times not trusting myself after all this time but I now had it right. The relief at realizing that I had not made a mistake was fantastic.
To this day I do not remember one iota of that ride through Oregon!
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So Mr. Iggy got the math a little wrong and he's at home comfy and rested on his couch. Imagine the possibilities for errors by the riders as the rally wears on and the cumulative fatigue builds in!
- Colin