Start Weekend in Concord CA

This has been a busy weekend of weather briefings, safety briefings, and race meetings. We were lucky to have a free day on Friday to ride the BART into San Francisco and spend a day in the town. We walked from pier 1 to pier 39 and had an awesome lunch-sourdough bread rolls filled with clam chowder! That gave us the energy to get all the way around to the Girardelli chocolate factory. The weather in San Francisco was lovely, clear skies with a light breeze.

Returning to Concord airport we were shuttled to Sterling Aviation for the Abingdon Watch Clocktail Hour and a barbecue of tri-tip roast, potato salad, green salad and rolls. It was a chance to visit with all the returning racers and meet some new racers from the college teams.

Saturday and Sunday we have mandatory meetings with Air Race Classic. In the afternoon we studied our routes, got outlook briefing of the weather, drew the timing lines on our approach plates and are getting into race mode. Here's hoping our checkered flag dresses bring us good luck!

Early Monday is the last mandatory briefing before take off at 8am. Follow us on Facebook Classic Twentyseven for updates through out the race and follow us on www.trackleaders.com/arc14 to see all the racers on Spot!