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  • I prefer a high 300s -400k split, leaving 200k to do on day two. But we did 350/250 on the weekend because there was a convenient hotel at a control. But if you just want to ride 24hr for the sake of doing that, there's no point worrying about sleep stops. You might nap on day two but you'll have done so much of the ride you'll probably push on (naps will help if you're getting noddy though).

    Use feed bags - means you can carry stuff and not use "no shops" as an excuse for not eating.

    Use a Garmin timer and always eat or drink on the 30min beep.

    People say "eat proper food" but I've done this shit on jelly babies and lolly snakes for years so what do they know? :) Licorice is nice - it's sugar too but the taste profile is different from all the fruit jelly stuff. I'll often grab some.

    Nowadays I don't get handups so have to make do with Coops and pubs. Egg and cress sandwiches and choc milk are my goto for "mains" unless I can find hot salty chips and tomato sauce (or pasta if I'm going posh). I'll get crisps now and then to get some salt in. Lucozade or plain water and tablets for drinking. I'll have Monster and Coke too some times. If there's controls/towns - cakes all the time. Love them. Missus gets sick of cake and sweets fast so goes to savoury foods but I found on the weekend's ride that too many flapjacks doesn't work well for me. I really needed more of the easier to digest sugars.

    Basically, do whatever it takes YOU to eat enough to get around. Everyone is different. If you try one thing and you puke, try something different until you find what works.

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