rally lessons

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1. When driving to a rally in Vermont, having a (rental, in this case) car with New Hampshire plates is extremely useful.
   
2. Trust your instincts. At one point along the course there had been a long time since the last hard mileage, and those are what I use to calculate. But it "smelled" early. Looking over my timing logs and the information on the checkpoint slip, it turns out that we were in fact 37 early at that point along the course.