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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.
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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!