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Yes, I keep thinking of all the time I could have saved by doing things differently. Mostly by staying on the main road, not doing some clever looking short cut down a road that might turn out not to exist.
And I'd get more efficient at packing.
Also a dynamo might even save time by reducing the need to look for batteries and faff around with charging.
frank9755-
I like my dynamo even though I probably could've got away without it given the time I spent in hotels tending to wounds.
I'm not sure how much more efficient I could get at packing. There's definitely a couple of items I'd leave behind next time but I used almost everything I took at some stage so I was pretty happy about it.
One thing I want to eliminate is the framebag rub on my knees with a skinnier framebag and maybe use a smaller saddle pack if I can get away with it. Not sure how TABR packing will differ from TCR packing though - need to think about that. 300g less useless currency at least :)
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Indeed, I left in the wrong direction once and as I realised it, instead of heading back I found a shortcut that took something like half an hour to get to the place where I had just been... and once I decided to choose the bigger road beside the one my route was on, only to see it was a highway and I had to come back.
And as I wasn't really sure how fucked up I'm gonna be after the Alps, I took especially the first half at a rather slow pace.Though I don't know if this would've actually made a difference in the end.
hippy
Samuli
hippy, putting the fat in fatigue since '92
Even with this year's race under my belt I'm sure I could do a lot better with what I know now.