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20 November NASCAR miles challenge

As the competition began, the early force from the Americas and points west came out strong. The opening run to the top was made by Ian, Watsup, Mike, and Sirebel (who was up into the wee hours of the morning to make his initial runs). The new man on the team, Gil, also got off to a strong start as did Tuan. These big hitters continued to turn and burn right up to the end of the whole deal putting in tremendous miles for the team. When the hours progressed, the European and African runners came into the mix and all began to add prolific miles to the running. The team remained in the Top 50 overall for much of the day. Later in the evening, we fell out of the top 50 and the troops made the decision to push on hard to get back into and hold top 50 status. Their efforts were almost in vain. A late and sudden surge from teams outside the top 50 almost kicked us out yet we were able to hold onto the position because our runners never stopped. In an incredible effort, we had 3 guys go over 2,000 miles and another 10 go over 1,000 miles. Even at the bottom, we got great runs from Noofaq with his newborn taking the great majority of his time and Jo H finding time to make runs between chasing down toddlers wearing no pants. Overall, this was an incredible day for Team IRA, showing just what we are capable of doing when the stars align just right. We're good every day, but this day, we were great.