A lot slower than expected-contributed by Susie

SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 2009 10:30PM
I just checked the race plan and they are all moving a lot slower than expected. We thought Newton would be in Glen Allen in 5 hours. Lance took 5:45 and Hans took 6:03, Newton is at 6:54. At extremely cold temperatures the snow is like sand paper. That slows things down. Also they try to keep the teams slow to avoid frost bite. So you can adjust the finish time already from 5 p.m. Monday to 7 p.m. Monday, and it will probably go a lot later than that as they lose time throughout the weekend against the race plan. Susie