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Yeah but I want to do it! Well kinda. Anyway the only thing I'm worried about is fatigue and getting home afterwards, so thinking this might help solve the problem. Aren't there audaxes with 2am start times? Maybe LWL. I'm guessing this is the idea right, to avoid riding through the night?
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Yeah, we're down for the Wessex SR, which starts the 300k on Sat at 2am so you can get around and then go to bed and do the 200k on the Sunday after. I've done that before, but caught the train down to Poole and hung around for the start IIRC.
There's nothing wrong with what you thinking of doing. I guess I find early starts preferable to late nights. I'm just less inclined to do that kind of thing these days. I've spent the last 20 years of my life sleep-deprived and I don't even have kids to blame for it.
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I shouldn't be encouraging this kind of audax behaviour. I'm not sure I could ECE a 300 event into a 400. Sounds evil. Plus for a 400 there will always be a certain amount of night riding.
Anyway, these two (links below) start at night, you could get the train to an acceptable point and ride to Manningtree for the first one. Not sure how you'd get home without at least two trains. The second one you could easily ride there and back or do a longer loop to get there and train from Ashford once finished.
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10002-green__yellow_fields
https://www.audax.uk/event-details/10384-fairies_flattest_possible_300
hippy
c*j*f
Yeah, I've done things like that. But I've never done an ECE, I just used to ride to/from events so it would mean I'd be getting up stupid oclock to get to the start on time.
"Other ideas" include not fucking doing it. :D