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I did a DIY by GPS 600 the other week, so not quite as long, but I just sent the org the total route before I started. As I understand it I just then had to complete the ride within 40 hours from the start time, the intermediate times didn’t matter as there were no controls per se (If I’ve understood the question correctly? Probably best ask your DIY org to be sure I guess)
jdsnape-
Yeah, that's a normal DIY. I'm talking about a particular type - a multiday Brevet Populaire DIY. You can basically make a cycle tour a DIY with say 6 days x 50k per day. Except I'm trying to find out if I can do the same thing but ride it all in one go. Or at least, more than one 50k chunk per day.
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Kind of like this stuff:
https://audax.uk/about-audax/event-types/permanent-events/end-to-end/"End to End - 7 x 200km Randonneur - 1400km (minimum)
A multi-day ride under Brevet Randonneur standards.
Riders have 240 hours (10 days) to get from tip to toe (or vice versa) of the UK. The overall time limit means that riders can incorporate rest days, but the ride will include at least 4 days where the following day will be spent in the saddle. ALL individual day stages MUST be at least 200km with suitable start, finish and intermediate controls. This means your overall ride will inevitably be quite a bit further than 1400km. Start/finish controls must be consecutive."
hippy
Question about multi-day DIYs:
If I break an 800k ride into 50k "per day" chunks, could I ride two or three of the chunks in one day and then say if it was harder terrain, only ride 1 or 2 of the 50k chunks?
Or do you have to commit to a "per day" distance before you start the multi-day DIY and only do that distance, no more/no less, on each actual calendar day?
If it's the latter, I guess another option would be to enter each 50k of the ride as a separate 50k BP in advance of the event and just make sure I email DIY org before I start each 50k or something like that (and also make sure I'm above 10kph BP min. speed for each).