This schedule for Austin 2009 is not encouraging:

http://www.livestrongchallenge.org/s...F/Schedule.htm

If they close packet pickup at 1:00 on Saturday, I will still have to take an extra day off and pay for an additional night at the hotel in order to be sure to make it on time. I'm sure many others who come from out of town would be in the same boat.

I think I will email them.