To take my mind of things, I was doing a bit of planning tonight rather than later if I do decide to ride last minute and noticed a discrepancy with the Brest Control closing time.
I'm in Group J with an 18:15 start, based on the control closing at 09:49 on the 22nd Aug for the 17:30 starters, it makes my closing time 10:34.
But in 2015, when I set off with the same start time of 18:15 I arrived at Brest at 09:48 and in 20:19 at 09:43, there is no way that I would have had a sleep at Carhaix and cut the time so fine.
When I look at the documentation for 2019, the closing time for the 18:15 start time at Brest was 12:21 which is what I would have planned on that year and had a couple of hours in hand..
It seems somehow this year, if it is right, Brest control is closing two hours earlier than normal and their is only a 2 kilometre difference in distance which would not affect it by that much.
Perhaps their is an error somewhere in my calculations as I'm still suffering from covid brain fog, or ACP has an error with the timings. But, if it is correct, then that means all my plans based on the last two times will have to be amended.
Even CARHAIX-PLOUGUER seems to be closing early westbound this year (18:15 group) at 04:33 instead of 06:00 as in 2019.
But.....I am now beginning to think I read something somewhere that it is a "Faster out" more than normal and a lot "Slower back" somewhere by someone else querying it, maybe on facebook.