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@HatBeard
was only space on the bike for my bottle mount and i'd rather carry the weight and have tools/jacket etc if i need them than be a few lbs lighter and get stuck in the middle of nowhere.
the main reason i didn't enjoy some of the up bits was because i was on 48x17 due to tight clearances on the fuji and not having enough chain to fit my usual 48x19.
and asides from going a bit slower than some of the skinny youngun's on the inclines there wasn't anywhere that i struggled on the route. it was just a bit knackering grinding away on the upward bits and the rolling nature of the middle bit of the route meant there wasn't always time to recover before you hit the next 'up' bit. to say it is pancake flat is bollocks as the middle section of the ride is pretty much all going upwards albeit gradually until you hit the big downhill section and it's flat all the way into cambridge.
i also spent a lot of the ride chasing up the front of the pack to tell them they were about to go the wrong way as the people riding off the front weren't always the people who knew where we were going and i had the only working turn by turn gps of the route.
but i'm happy for the willy waving (hilly waving?) to continue. i need to htfu, wear more lycra, ride more hills, get more gears, eat more energy gels and shave my legs.