https://youtu.be/1jHoelIF8mo

Everybody is accounted for. Day 9 report is attached.

https://spotwalla.com/animation/663b-71570-efb9/view?speed=80

The fact that Nancy still has the ability to scratch out words amazes me. I've always had the writing style of.....well, if I was to be extra generous, I'd say Ernest Hemingway, but if I was to be honest, it'd be more along the lines of Ernest P. Worrell. We are anxiously watching the Spotwalla tracks of our riders. I didn't sleep but about 2 hours last night and I'm not 100% sure I'm going to do much better tonight. We'll see. Here's Nancy's Day 8 report. Enjoy.

Nancy's Day 7 post is here

Nancy did a good job of giving you some specifics on the riders and their rides today. You'll also see here on the forum I've posted the Leg A rallybook, if you want to look at it. Here's today's rally report attached.

Here you will find attached the 2024 LDX Leg A rallybook. It has the Operations Order which outlines how the rally works and how you attempt and collect points. The next item is the alien target dossier that lists the aliens, where they are, and what you need to defeat them. The next item are Call for Fire cards (see Operations Order). The last thing in the combined PDF is the Allied Equipment Identification Manual. A ScoreHelper Excel file is also here. The forum won't let me attach a GPX file. I'll put it on our website. Have fun.

Today's report of activities from Nancy Oswald. It's been busy here at rally HQ, not so much with rider issues, but just trying to poise everything right for the next couple days and be prepared for when the riders turn their routes back in the direction of Iowa City. It most likely won't happen tomorrow but for those courageous riders who are in the far north, headed in the direction of California or the Pacific Northwest, or hitting the Atlantic seaboard, at some point Wednesday, they need to consider what it's going to take to head back to the barn. I think tomorrow with be a furious stretch of activity as riders place themselves in a position to land that big whale before they have to turn the boat back around.

https://spotwalla.com/animation/0a1e-0f46-cbc5/view?speed=80

Photos by Tobie Stevens https://tobiestevens.smugmug.com/LDX-2024-Checkpoint

I won't say much, Nancy pretty much covers it all. Here is today's rally report from LDX Rally HQ, aka FOBLDX.

Here are the current standings. Not shown are Alex Alpert and Jay Bolinger who are okay, but unable to finish the leg.

https://tobiestevens.smugmug.com/2024-LDX-RALLY-START

Riders are in. All are accounted for. Here is today' s ride report.

Despite a harrowing illness, Nancy managed to suffer through the pain and nausea to produce this well-written and informative daily report. While I goofed off and did "Paul things." Enjoy.

We are over 24 hours (29 hours at the time of this posting) from the start of the rally and we already have riders 1300 miles west of the rally start, 1300 miles south of the start, 1000 miles east of the rally start, and over 2200 miles difference between east and west riders. I don't know why, but the Mississippi watershed area is devoid of riders currently, but New England is full of them, a couple are headed to Key West and the American Southwest is overrun with half our riders. Nancy has been working all day on this ride report and it is full of fun news from the field. She's working her little butt off in Rally HQ. Hope you enjoy the report.

The rally started this morning at 0425 with riders gathering for the start meeting. The ride report for today produced by Nancy is attached. The start video can be found at this link : https://youtu.be/zT2f1YHDfzg

The "day before go time" report as written by Nancy Oswald is here for your reading pleasure. Everything starts rather early tomorrow and you won't expect to see much until tomorrow evening from us. Until then.