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I was planning on riding it the same direction as the calendar event, basically doing the 2nd half then the 1st...
I had a skim through the map and seem to remember Rhayader falls around 400k, figured it was a good place to look for a ditch and a little snooze. Will probably aim for a similar start time although I need to see how the night-riding compares and where it puts me for breakfast...
Any potential food stops will be well marked as my experience of weekend opening hours in Wales hasn't be fantastic... Expect it to be hard but good practice for a longer and hillier event I somewhat-optimistically entered after a few large glasses of port!
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As a suggestion, if you're starting in North Wales would be to do it starting from Dolgellau. Get there early on Friday, knock out the northern loop, get a kip and then do the bigger southern loop on the Saturday. Does mean that you might be a bit nervy hauling up Cross Foxes or Cader Idris close to the time limit, but you do get a lovely flowing descent to the finish.
Can't see why not. Which way round are you thinking of doing it?
I'd probably do the Newtown bit on the way to Chepstow first and then look to sleep somewhere around Rhayader (B&B maybe with late arrival) on the way back but I haven't looked at the distances properly. I'll grab the perm routesheet and have a nose.
Either way I'd be looking at where ~400km puts me (assuming a 6am start like the calendar event) and see if there's a way to fit a sleep stop in there. Otherwise I'd just push through and nap somewhere just before sunrise.
I can imagine it's a tough perm (I've only done the calendar event) given the lack of 24 hour facilities en route, but it is a lovely route.