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You are good with statistics aren't you, the factors here not riding to fast for my left knee, sleep, time on controls and finishing? Your help with my BCM schedule would be appreciated.
fussballclub-
Your help with my BCM schedule would be appreciated.
Ride to Menai, if you're feeling dozy then have a snooze on a table there, if it's still light then you're not going to have many problems. Stock up well (either at the control or I think there's a 24 hour garage somewhere near the bridge) on the way as there'll be fuck all open between leaving Dolgellau at ~200km and getting back there at ~400km.
Eat then snooze at Kings YH on the way back, leave with an hour to spare. Some big lumps at first on the way to Aberhafesp but it kind of flattens out. Final control at Weobley is a shop. Enjoy the Llancloudy roller-coaster.
Depends on what times you'd normally do for other rides and how you felt at the end of them.
Greenbank
Sort of, but not directly.
For me it's about being able to complete the distance, the next things were/are:-
Not being up against the time limits is related to speed but there's an early cut off with just how much faster you need to be to get this. Having 2 hours to do the 35km to a control before it closes is not relaxing; one puncture or mechanical and you could be out of time. Having 3 hours to do that distance makes it comfortable, having any more than that doesn't make it any more comfortable really. Once you're that little bit faster then it makes the rest of the ride more relaxing.
Of course, if you get round a 600km event with 8300m of climbing on fixed with 5 or 6 hours' sleep in the middle and a nice couple of hours to spare at the finish then you'll probably smash the next flat-ish 200km ride that you do on gears.
My goal is generally to finish any ride with about 2 hours time spare. This may change as I get fitter/faster as I train for slvlss.