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We left at 9am, we arrived at 5pm-ish. So that would say 8 hours.
But we got lost a few times, took a detour through Redhill that added a big hill and a stack of miles, and we stopped loads. Basically it was a no-one left behind policy, so if things got out of hand we pulled over and re-grouped. But we couldn't speed off when the tail arrived as we would've rested and they wouldn't have. So there was a lot of sitting around, getting started, slowing down.
This is why the second half was a lot faster, we basically only did this twice on the second half, whereas the first half it happened so often that I couldn't even tell you how much we stopped.
It was all great fun though, a hell of a day out :)