The DC America's British Reliability Run (ABRR) 2023

A challenge of this ride was staying on the course, unknown until the morning of the event. The idea was that you would not simply plug the route into Google Maps and go but rather the navigator would read the instructions off the paper and relay them to the driver. 

The key to this challenge was paying attention to the odometer to understand the distance to the next turn. Funny story about that, and about the "reliability" portion of this challenge. In the Seven, our odometer went out at mile zero. Yep, just as we reset the odometer to follow the course, the odometer (and speedometer) went out! We had to catch up to cars that had already started and gone ahead so that we could follow them. Their getting lost after we started following them didn't help.

On day 2, we left the hotel and hit a gas station to refuel only to find that, by the time we got back to the hotel, everyone had already left. With nobody to follow, no odometer, and no cell signal for any hope of a map (and we hadn't cached the map), how would we make this work? Enter my cycling app already on my phone, Strava, an app that I used for bicycling to track mileage and course breadcrumbs, and which was GPS-based. It would become our odometer and worked great! That being said, we still ended up missing turns.