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PTC said:
I think it was a bit wrong to say that people should drive by the posted speed limits. We always drove 10-20 km/h over, and we came in late.
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Unfortunately, if anyone were to be pulled over (and there WERE cops along the route!), and the officials found evidence of the mere suggestion of violating any sort of speed limit or of arriving at a destination in a prescribed time that requires violating speed limits, that would give them grounds for charging every participant with "participating in a speed contest" which is a BIG no-no under the Highway Traffic Act ... I was concerned enough with this possibility even the way it was. We have to (officially) operate within the Highway Traffic Act, and hence the lack of an official target time in advance and the emphasis on posted limits (and I agree, everyone in Ontario ignores them except when the police are visible).
For the record, my run through the course in advance of everyone else was about 8 minutes under the target time, and we had previously done it in 14 minutes under, but those are with Ontario driver's normal ignorance of posted limits ...
As it was, everyone behaved well enough that we didn't get in trouble. Perhaps some things might be different next time but that's for the organizers of next year's event to decide!