This was a Sunday race and I haven’t done a Sunday since Cleveland, Ohio (remember the super frozen race). Brian caught a ride into work on Friday so that I could drive down and pick him up and head out from there. Things were going great, I got everything that I wanted to get done, done and left at 3 to head to Brian’s office. This trip normally takes 90 minutes, but traffic was RIDICULOUS and it took me 2 ½ hours to get there. I got there just before 6 and we drove, hitting traffic off and on, but we were in the middle of the 2nd book of the Outlander series, so we were excited to get back to the book!!! We drove for a while with a cooler full of snacks so that we didn’t have to stop
Brian and I left to make the drive to West Virginia on 06/06/2014, Friday. We left the house at 5:15 am with all our race crap and a skinny cooler full of food for the drive. I had grocery shopped Wednesday that week and prepped a whole bunch of fruit, cheese and crackers, hummus and chips. We have made this drive many times for Ohio, Michigan and New York races and there is mostly fast food on the way, not what I want for my pre-race day food. We snacked across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and W. Virginia. In fact, other than Starbucks, we did not stop for food. This made for an efficient trip and we made the 9.5 hour journey in exactly 10 hours!!! We had downloaded the seco
