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I like to "fly by the seat of my pants" for the most part so I'm probably the worst for this, but I tend to mark CPs and food/resupply points as a must have and everything else is a "nice to know". I'll ride it day or night, hot or cold, I don't care. But if there's sections you know already, like tricky descent or dangerous crossing or "remember to take the small path here" then I would add them to my cheat sheet too so that when you're fucked (I mean it's only 500k so you're not going to be that bad, mentally) but when you're struggling with a section you might have a note that jogs your memory, like "hard to see turn here, but it's deffo right" or whatever.
But mostly these days I'm not racing so I don't really care about much other than how much food, drink between resupply points and maybe time cuts.
I also mark distance of town names and maybe high points (elevation) just to aid my memory of the route but much of it I can see on my Garmin for the most part.
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@hippy - Race Across France - Route is provided, I am not particularly familiar with the area but it's not unknown to me (ridden about 100km of it in the past). Just aiming to finish as it's the first time I've done something like this.
@skinny - There's bits like descending the Ventoux, I'm not enthusiastic about doing at night, but the departure schedule seems set for people to avoid that so hopefully that's fine. After that there's not much I don't want to do other than the Gorges de Verdun in the dark as I found drivers shit during the day there before.
TBH, given it's France, a Friday into a Saturday, it's not that stressful in terms of being there, just the physical challenge.