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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 03:30 PM
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Valentine's Day (or so) Run - GI

Just seeing who would be interested in doing a drive based out of San Antonio on the weekend before or after Valentine's Day.

Potential route would start at HWY 16 and 1604 and drive to Bandera, then cut over to Leaky, then the 3 sisters, then back to kerrville then home.
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Old Jan 6, 2009 | 03:06 PM
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I am in....
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Old Jan 8, 2009 | 03:07 PM
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Come on guys...
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Old Jan 8, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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i know there are people here
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Old Jan 10, 2009 | 12:57 AM
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hey, I'd probably be in unless there's something going on with school I dont know about yet... I'm guessing people are still getting back from trips and stuff so that might be why people havent been posting.
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Old Jan 11, 2009 | 12:03 AM
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im up for it if im not working, would be cool to meet some 8 owners in town
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 09:38 AM
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Would you guys allow a previous 8 owner to tag along? Been itching to run the sisters since last October. Actually I am surprised we didn't run into the 8 group since we were out there that same weekend...we did see a Miata group though. Real fun!
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:04 AM
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mayb...id hafta see
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by VS8
mayb...id hafta see
If not, that's cool.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 03:06 PM
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yeah sure come along.... its open to all motor enthusiasts
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 04:05 PM
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yeah sure come along.... its open to all motor enthusiasts
Cool, thanks Grungepup...I will work to clear my schedule...really looking forward to it.

But if any of you other guys would rather me not attend then just speak up...the last thing I want to do is disrupt your group.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 04:10 PM
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I'm down, just keep me updated. The statewide was cool.
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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 11:02 PM
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hello, new to the website, so much cool stuff to see, would love to go on a run and meet more RX8 owners, keep us updated!!
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Old Jan 17, 2009 | 11:00 PM
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...,1.455688&z=10

here is a proposed map so far... give me some feed back

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Old Jan 17, 2009 | 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Grungepup
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...,1.455688&z=10

here is a proposed map so far... give me some feed back
That is on hell of a run! Makes mine look like a cakewalk.
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Old Jan 18, 2009 | 10:24 AM
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Yeah... its just about 350 miles.... but it covers all the roads we did at the state meet and then some. Should take about 8-9 hours. If we leave at 8am-ish then we should be hitting the forum just in time for dinner
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Old Jan 18, 2009 | 07:52 PM
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Yeah... its just about 350 miles.... but it covers all the roads we did at the state meet and then some. Should take about 8-9 hours. If we leave at 8am-ish then we should be hitting the forum just in time for dinner
My run today was about 30% faster than the google map calculated time...obviously due to the speed with which we actually drive vs. the google assumed speeds. Your time may actually be a little less...depending on how fast you plan to drive the route. I haven't done the calculations for your route, and you may have already accounted for that. Just thought I would mention it in case you didn't!

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Looks good dude. I'm down, I'll need to test out the new suspension anyway.
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Yeah... rethinking it.... will prolly cut the length down to about 6 hours.


might have an impromptu meet to discuss the course and the date. I dont want to do it on V day for obvious reasons. So either the 7th or the 21st.
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Old Jan 18, 2009 | 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Grungepup
Yeah... rethinking it.... will prolly cut the length down to about 6 hours.


might have an impromptu meet to discuss the course and the date. I dont want to do it on V day for obvious reasons. So either the 7th or the 21st.
Yeah...V day. The wife would kill me!

Google shows a length of ~9.5 hours...You have about ~1.5 hours getting to and from the area...so you are looking at 8 hours in the twisties according to google. More like 5.5 hours (google -30%) plus 1 hour for breaks, engine/brake cool downs, refueling etc...so you are prolly looking at an 8 hour total run as is.

Leave at 8am and pull in at 4pm or 5pm. Totally doable.
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