• I've only just planned to CP 2. Concentrated too much on gear acquisition and fitness and not enough on this crucial element.
    Far more work getting a decent route than I ever anticipated. Much care needed not to find yourself on a banned road or dual carriage way. Heat maps are great but often find that the majority are taking bike paths and I can't work out whether the bike path is a proper disused Railway line bike path or whether it's a London spec bike path.
    Plenty of time though right?

  • I'm somewhere halfway in Czechia with my route planning. Proper time sink :) But gear and training is almost done so got the whole weekend and next week to plan my route.

  • My route is done (sort of). I have 3920km with 48,301 metres which sounds a lot!

  • It doesn't matter how much time you spend on it you will still have to be able to route around stuff when riding it so I wouldn't worry. The more you can do now the better but it's never going to be perfect. I think zigzag on yacf did the first one having come up with a route the night before so in comparison you have feckin' ages.

  • Hang on, you posted a route months ago. You can't bullshit me, I remember everything!

    https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14058560/

    except family birthdays, people's names, phone numbers for anyone, ever...

    I bet yours is optimised to fuck and you pass me while I'm doing circles in a field.

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