I've been reading JulieB's comments over at BJ. It sounds like they had a much different experience than us. We had 5 vans, four of them with 4 riders and two crew people each. We also had a follow vehicle with two crew people each, for a total of ten crew members and 16 riders. I was wondering how Julie had gotten time to do any posting during the race. Now I know. When I wasn't navigating, I was sleeping, not posting info.

Our plan was that one team from each van would go out for a 30 minute pull, so the riders were going out every two and a half hours, but the crew was on the entire time. We only had one 3 hour section, Monday night I think, when our van was not moving forward on the course. The only time Thom and I got to sleep for more than twenty minutes was when we put racers into the driver's and navigator's chairs.

I've slept 26 of the last 48 hours.

Veronica