Jody and I caught up to Reto and his crew at 1:36 a.m. this morning, 20 miles past Time Station 46, very close to a place called Cool Springs.
We had actually pulled off the windy, uphill road a few minutes earlier for a 15-minute power nap, our first "official" power nap of the trip. Had we known that Reto was just ahead, we probably would have skipped the Z's, but, as they say in Germany, "safe is safe."
Since Reto was sleeping and was going to be sleeping for at least another hour, according to his crew, anyway, we decided to stop and sleep, too.
A while later we were woken up by a really loud noise, which was actually music blaring from the speakers mounted atop Reto's follow vehicle. I barely caught a glimpse of Reto as he started to pedal again toward Annapolis, and I made a mental note of the time: 3:07 a.m.
Within seconds, I was back asleep.
Some time later, I woke up again and noticed that Reto's RV was gone. I think it was about 5 o'clock by then.
Finally, just after 6, approximately 3 hours after Reto took off, Jody and I got up, hurriedly got our things off of the front seats, and drove off to find Reto.
With a little less than 300 miles to go, this is still quite a race.
Because Strasser was awarded a 1:15 time bonus for being stopped by the local police about 5 days ago due to a tornado warning, and because Strasser started 30 minutes after Reto, Reto needs to finish 1:45:01 ahead of Strasser to win.
Right now, that lead is more like 45 minutes, so Reto has his work cut out for him.
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