Desert Dingo Racing

Fly the Hawthorne 225

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We’re headed to Hawthorne, Nevada, July 11-13 for VORRA’s Hawthorne 225 night race. I’m pretty sure this is the one where I broke a couple of ribs the last time we did raced it a few years back. Good times.

VORRA has released the GPS file. I’ve reformatted it to Google KML and am “flying” the course in Google Earth. If you’re interested, here’s how you can, too.

  1. Download the Hawthorne.kml file.
  2. Unzip it and put it on your desktop.
  3. Load it in Google Earth.
  4. Click on the triangle to the left of Temporary Places.
  5. Click on the triangle to the left of GPS device.
  6. Click on the triangle to the left of Tracks.
  7. Click on Path.
  8. Look down toward the bottom of the left column for a little icon of three diamonds connected by a line. Click the triangle to the right of that icon.

It’s just that simple. If you’re a total nerd, you can bump up the flight speed by selecting Google Earth Preferences, click on the Touring tab, and plug 269 into the Speed box.

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