Big Dig Run (Krispy Kreme to Ihop)

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Today I got up at 6:15am (really early for me!) and headed off into Boston for the Big Dig Tunnel Run, starting at Krispy Kreme:


The event was organized by Richard (“rfinprc”) on MINI2, and we had between 20 and 30 MINIs show up! The drive took us from Krispy Kreme over the new Lennie Zakim bridge, through the tunnels, around Logan Airport, and along Storrow Drive to breakfast at IHOP:

 

After breakfast we headed out through Concord along many winding roads (pleasantly devoid of traffic), stopping along the way for a group picture (the temperature was zero fahrenheit when we started, rising to about 10f by the end of the drive):


We totalled about 60 miles on the run, and on the way back I broke through 12K!

NEMO Christmas Party

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There was a NEMO event today – the Christmas Party! Delayed from December due to the snowstorm (which kept Margaret and I stranded in Washington DC for a few days …

We had about 60 people come (NEMO membership is over 100 now!) although in a light snow storm many people did not come in their MINI/Mini. When I got there, Ken had arrived in his Mini “woody” and shortly after a “Mini Moke” arrived, with no sides to it! More MINIs arrived, and we had a fun lunch / Christmas party …

 

BMWCCA meeting at Turner Motorsport

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I went to the Boston chapter of the BMW Car Club Of America first quarter general meeting tonight, which was held at Turner Motorsports in Amesbury. There were a couple of other MINIs there apart from GBMINI, owned by people that work at Turner Motorsport. In their showroom was a rather different car – a McLaren F1!

 

The general meeting was not like I expected – it was much better! Basically we were entertained in Turner Motorsports workshop with food and drink and two hours of personal history from Will Turner, from his first speeding ticket (on the way home from the driving test center), through various racing events, through to last years major success taking first and third on the 2003 SCCA world challenge …