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I got nervous about the traffic and the clock and sped up again.
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Aside from having a GPS, and the Scangauge, the most useful thing you could have for these times runs is a countdown clock - I use the timer on my ipod touch. (set it to 3 hrs, and started it when the starting line person said go.) I'm not assuming you didn't have this, but if you didn't you should have. I found myself driving pretty darn slow for the first 50 miles. With all 2 of the actual FE runs I've been involved in, I was not bashful at all about taking my sweet time for the first half of the race, and it seems to have worked and then some. Both of these runs happened to have very nice second halves, where plenty of time could be taken to make up some MPG used up with all the climbing.
The more I think of it, this was a really nice route - the final leg (rt 30) had a bunch of traffic and a HUGE shoulder. I remember driving along with Matt for miles at a time
within the shoulder letting droves of traffic pass.