I've been back at my job for two days now. I actually enjoy my work - I get a rise out of it, and I'm passionate about what I do...but man is it hard to focus after this past week. My friends will recognize this comparison - but there is a scene in the movie Fight Club, when the main character's boss is speaking, but the volume is turned down...it becomes background noise. I remember feeling this way after my first One Lap, and it's exactly the same this time. Around 3pm, I start panicking about how far I have to drive, and then I realize that the only place I have to go is the copier, down the hall.

My only saving grace is that I don't have the trophy. I don't know if I could stand it staring at me, begging me to hit the road, and go racin'. In the end, we did great. We crushed in our class- 1st place (and enough to get our picture on the front page of the One Lap website). We finished 13th overall as the 2nd fastest BMW. Without a couple of our mistakes and setbacks, we would have been a top 10 team. And with a little extra luck and with everything running smoothly, who knows...we could have been number 1. Oh well, Alex, the car owner, has the trophy, and it's a darn good thing. It could never sit still in my office. It would call to me, like an addiction. And I'd be on the road racin'

Just 353 more days until One Lap 2009!!

On the way home, the East Coast BMW's stop for gas, and a photo-op.