I was going to hold on until August to tell you more about the next LEL, but I thought that any news would be (quite rightly) crowded out by PBP. So I'll start a thread here with my news.
Rather than slim the LEL route down from a rather podgy 1430km, we've decided to fatten it up instead. LEL2021 will therefore become a 1500km event. This will give you an extra 8 hours and 20 minutes to complete those extra 70km.
Subject to LRM approval, we'll also have a 100 hour group, albeit rather smaller than last time. There will be just one group at this speed, leaving at 5am. And because of other changes that I'll reveal soon, this means we will have far, far more starting slots between 06:00 and 12:00 for people who want a 125 hour limit.
The route will be mandatory this time. There will be a single secret control. Again, because of extra details that we'll tell you about soon, we may also ask LRM to waive this requirement for a short stretch of the route.