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Thrasher
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I re-LELed as a training ride and equipment shakedown for Trans-Atalantic Way, sticking to the suggested route the whole way this time, so I no-longer feel like I have unfinished LEL business.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1555350273
Many equipment failures were indeed shaken out: I have 2 dented rims to tackle, a puncture-prone badly rimtaped wheel identified, a headset problem fixed, a much better designed extended rear rack thanks to an overhaul in a meadow in the Lincolnshire Wolds, and a long list of other minor tweaks to make.
I've also discovered that it is possible to try too hard to do without much sleep. If I'd slept a bit more I probably wouldn't have lost so much time to being dazed and confused. Sprinting up hills and trying to cost down flats in the final stages probably didn't help my overall time. I'd not realized how much lack of sleep would effect my ability to judge the gradient I was on.
I saw stoats scurry across the road in front of me a couple of times, I don't remember seeing any of those on actual LEL.