Subject: RE: Hotels for Pinehurst Pinehurst is driveable in one day. You will get lost on the way to the site. Every year I do. I even had really good directoins from someone on BT last year, and still got lost!
Here's what I wrote in 2007 race report about pre-race stuff...
"My alarm went off at 4:45am. I got dressed, loaded my bike and gear bag onto my car, and mixed up a thermos of oatmeal to eat en route. I was on the road by 5:15. It was a 1.5 hour drive to the race site.
I got a little lost on the way. The directions on the Setup Inc site are sketchy, and Google maps is not much better. To top it off, I didn’t see any other vehicles with bikes as I neared the race site. That got me real worried. Usually, once I get close to a race site, I can just follow the caravan of bike-laden cars to the site.
I finally arrived at about 7:10am. Race time was 8am, my wave started at 8:24. The instructions said packet pickup closed at 7am, but I wasn’t too concerned because I think they just tell you that to encourage you not to get there at the last minute. I filled up my tires, greased my chain, loaded up my gear onto my back and rode the 1/2 mile from the parking to the transition area. Not much interesting happened during race prep. I did hit the porta potty about 8:05 am, 20 minutes before my start time." |