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hippy
Not strictly true (about the same stretch of ride twice in the same direction). That rule (I don't think it's even a written down rule) was put in place to stop people coming up with rides which were just laps of a certain route (be it endless 1km loops, 20 x 10km laps of Richmond Park or a 200km ride made up of 4 laps of a favourite 50km training route).
There's nothing to say you can't use the same stretch of road twice in the same direction (many calendar rides do it[1]), but you'll be told that any route which is obvious laps of some sort is not allowed.
A simple 100km out and 100km back along the same A road is perfectly fine, it's going to be a fuckload easier to do it as DIY by GPS for the reasons previous posted. A start point, midway point (50km), turning point (100km) midway-back point (150km), finish point (200km). The midway points and the start/finish points can be the same place (my DIY up to Cambridge uses a cashpoint by Putney Railway Station, a garage in Broxbourne and the Tesco on Newmarket Road in Cambridge, then the same garage and cashpoint on the way back).