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I have in front of me a Calleva Road Club handbook (for 1949), and I can inform you that your ride would once have given you that illustrious club's 100 record which you would have held until the 19th June 1932 when F.G. Heath did 4.49.49.
Seriously, I think that to get inside five hours, at a first attempt, with so much against you shows real promise. I can imagine the possibility of riding in non-cycling shoes, but then to keep going at any sort of speed after adding six miles to the distance would always have been beyond me. It is a good example of the sort of determination needed for the longer distances.
It can't have been a particularly fast day either, with only one rider getting inside four hours.
Since everyone improves with experience at any particular distance I don't believe you will need a great deal of luck to get inside 4.20 next year.
I've been a bit slow responding to this 'cos I've been away or a couple of days.