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@Velocio
I have no idea when they will call. They didn't even all know the system had changed... they were originally going to be selling the tickets instore but decided that it would create a queue too long and went for the phone list instead. How this amounts to less work from them I do not know. I guess they now have committed themselves to collating the lists in their head office and phoning people from there... it could take a day or so for them to organise this if they're really on top of things, I don't actually believe they're that on top of things. So who knows. I will be very mightily pissed if I don't get a place though.
I'm not going to bomb it down there, but I'll probably ride with my club mates and do through and by for a significant chunk of the ride, and work in pairs on some of the hills. This should give me a pretty good average speed way above the cut-offs. Whether I retain enough energy for the end will be something else. I'll get there, the first half will be fresh and speedy, the next quarter will start showing signs of strain on any major hills, the last quarter will be me trying to fight any physical need to bonk... feeding and watering as much as possible.