Any route coming into Hampton Roads, besides I-64 (if you're coming in at night when traffic is light), just feels like a slog due to the artificially low speed limits.
Coming from the south, you're traveling on either I-95 or I-85 with a 70 mph speed limit traveling 80+ mph the whole way for hours, then you enter Virginia for 11-12 miles, then have to exit for US-58 to slog for the last 60-100 miles (either from I-95 or I-85) at a boring 55-60 mph on open road that can easily be traversed at 75 or 80 mph. And once you get into Hampton Roads, all the freeways are 55 or 60 mph max, there's no final short 65 mph or 70 mph stretch you can just open up on. And it does not help that the few rural limited access freeway segments along the route between I-95 / I-85 and Hampton Roads are still only 60 mph even though they are legally permitted to be increased up to 70 mph, and could safely handle such.
Same with US-13 / US-113 down the hundred+ mile Eastern Shore once departing DE-1 near Dover, and US-460 south of Petersburg / I-295. All 55 mph max.
US-17 from the south can feel sloggish, but at least there's 70 mph freeway segments in various segments throughout to break the monotony of 55 mph, and the final segment going into Virginia is 60 mph. The worst part is the final segment in Chesapeake, VA where it's 55 mph on rural limited access highway for 17 miles. Overall, US-17 is still a slog throughout.
I-64 at least lets you keep 65 mph (with the wide open segment through Newport News often seeing at least one car going 80-90+ mph) all the way to near the I-664 interchange in Newport News, and while it's 60 mph south of there along I-664, there's enough traffic moving 70+ mph it's generally safe to set cruise at around 70 mph without risking a ticket. And if you time it right, you can cross the HRBT on I-64 and travel in the reversible lanes with a 65 mph speed limit through Norfolk.
My overall favorite on I-64 being more specific, is where it now opens to up to 6 lanes near Williamsburg. Often I-64 between Richmond and Williamsburg can be a bottleneck with traffic barely even hitting the 70 mph speed limit, but as soon as you reach Williamsburg, a third lane opens up to the left, and you can just hit it at 80+ mph (speed limit is still 70 mph in this area) and pass the lines of 65 mph side-by-side cars in the other two lanes with large gaps in front of them.