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Using the tips you gents have given me, I'm starting to feel a lot less daunted by planning this route.
What have I learned? Break the route into day long stages, then split the days into threeish ministages...finally plot each ministage village to village using a tried and tested notation system. This is about as easy as falling off a bike.
Eat regularly, drink regularly, bring essential tools tubes warm summer top waterpoofs etc (to be fair, not new to me as I'm a regular rider)...painkillers should be useful.
150mi a day is too far if you're planning on riding the next day.
I've received some kind suggestions of places to stay, routes, an offer of a paceman from Manchester to Cumbria (Thanks Biffo, have a feeling we'll be needing somebody to drain the last few scraps of energy out of our knackered legs).
To cap it all, an offer of company from Ed. +1s all round, I'm just hoping that the final post on this thread in July will be a photo of me (and hopefully Ed and anybody else who wants to come with) triumphantly arriving at Rose Cottage, bikes aloft, grins on our faces ready to celebrate my birthday.