Had a slight issue with crashing somewhere around the 75km mark, meaning I did the remaining distance largely just trying to get round without doing any permanent damage, and within the time limit. Still ended up escorting 2 newbies round, one of which at the end said he wouldn't have finished without me, which was nice to hear. I think I may have enjoyed things more had I not been awake since midday Friday. Being awake for over 36 hours, and doing a 200 is suboptimal.
The first 80km or so of the route was beautiful, unfortunately it set the bar so high the last half was quite disappointing. Not to mention the headwind slot sucked. I think adding a control part way between the 2 would have been a good idea. Tho many may have an aversion to 3 commercial controls and 2 photo controls.
That said, I've now cycled to America...
And of course I managed to add to my Gemeente tally. I thought I would get 12, but turns out I got that wrong. I got 15. Bringing me to 335 total, and 300 for 2019.
J