I was surprised how familiar you needed to be with the area to do well in the race. I know some teams had just moved to the area, and wouldn’t have known about, say, Nielsens Power Sports. Granted, some fast googling would help, but to me that kind of creates an uneven playing field (which we fully attempted to exploit! 🙂

I’ll bet it cost more in gas than for the entrance fee 🙂

It is charity after all, so the money goes to a good cause, I’m happy paying more if it’s going somewhere useful.

Heh. Google, T-Mobile, or Sprint. Dan made heavy use of the Palm Google Maps app on his Treo, too.

We were actually a little uncertain of what our overall time was – we were actually wondering if we should drag our feet a bit going into the last checkpoint since I, uh, have something of a lead foot 🙂 It’s a good thing we decided to go ahead full speed, though. We thought the window was pretty tight too, but if you’ve got people out on the course it kind of makes sense – you don’t want people sitting around for six hours waiting for that last team to come stumbling past…

You bet! It’s a bit pricey, but it’s a lot of fun.

I initially thought the more than 2 hours but less than 3 seemed a little bit too tight, but it sounds like it was actually pretty fair range considering how many teams and how well you guys did.