Slightly different format...
Total Distance 1225km
RWGPS Moving time: 59:34:19
RWGPS Stopped Time: 27:05:01
Official time: 86:32:32
Ramboulliet to Mortagne: 4h 41m, 25.5kmh
Stopped at control: 36:55 - Lots of Faffing, first to get water, then a roll, then to get another roll to carry into the night
Mortagne to Villaines: 4h 30m, 23.5kmh
Stopped at the Café in Vivoin for 9m to eat roll and watch riders pass through while another rider slept of the steps
Stopped at a shop in Villaines for food intending to bounce control 7m
Stopped at control for 40m as wanted even more food...
Villaines to Fougeres: 5h 11:21, 21.2kmh
Stopped for 30m at the cafe in Ambrieres-les-vallées; think I had a 15m snooze after eating
Appear to have had a 4m comfort break before Gorron, unusual as most others show as a few seconds.
Stopped at Lidl for 15m to get some supplies for my back pocket, i.e. Haribo, and also pstries
Stopped at control for 57 minutes
Fougeres to Quedilliac: 4h 43, 20.7kmh
Stopped for 31mins at Sens-de_Bretagne, needed more suncream, needed to use public WC.
Stopped for 16 mins at Tinteniac, to control and get water.
Stopped at Quedilliac for 56 minutes, got a very substandard plate of box pastas with a slice of ham on it IIRC
Quedilliac to Loudeac: 3hrs, 19.5kmh
No intermediate stops
Stopped at Loudeac for 25m
Loudeac to St Nicolas: 2hr 37m, 18.2kmh
Stopped at a Tabac on the way out of town but it was rammed with riders , 4m wasted
Stopped at Tabac in Treve, bottle of coca and a shop raid, took a mental note to stop on the return if they were still there
Stopped for 56m, think I had a 15m snooze, certainly didn't spend all that time controlling and then eating in the cafe
St Nicolas to Carhaix: 1hr 37, 20.5kmh
No intermediate stops
Stopped at Carhaix for 1hr 37m; First sleep of reasonable length, 1h IIRC
Carhaix to Brest: 5hr 48m, 19.2kmh
3m stop at Huelgoat, can't remember why, possibly comfort break
7m stop at Passing Kerelcun, can't remember why, possibly a long faffy comfort break
1.5m stop at La Feuilée, probably another comfort break, I get like this after a while
12m stop at the top of the Roc, 10m sleep in a lounger at a motorhome.
30m stop at Sizun for Breakfast split between Patiserie and Café, note made to stop on return which I estimated to be lunch time
7m stopped on Pont albert-Louppe
5m stopped at a patisierie on the climb up to Brest
Stopped for 55m at Brest which is disappointing as all I did was control and get changed.
Overall RWGPS Stats to Brest
38hrs 19m - My slowest 600km to that point (I've always been in the 37hrs range)
Moving time 28:43:48
Stopped Time 09:35:23
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Retour
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Brest to Carhaix: 5hrs 20m, 19.8kmh
Time stopped 1h 6m
44m stopped at Sizun for lunch as planned
6m roadside stop for comfort break, I think this is where I spotted a West Lothian Clarion jersey rising from the grass ahead of me and rode with him for a bit after that
7m roadside break just after Huelgoat
4m stop in Carhaix, I'd run out of notes so went into the Credit Agricol to use their ATM
Stopped at Carhaix for 52 mins
Carhaix to Loudeac: 5hrs 10mins, 4hrs 37 moving, 31mins stopped
Stopped at St Nicolas for 17 minutes
6.5mins stop at Le Rohanno, either a stall or comfort break
2 mins break in the middle of nowhere, must have been a comfort break
5 minute stop at the Tabac in Treve where I'd stopped on the way out. "What do you want?", "Coke", "That won't help you!" (I'm sure it would), "Sorry I mean Coca"
Loudeac: Over all I spent 1hr 10min here, I took 24mins to do little more than control, I'd decided I wanted to find somewhere else which was a choice of pizza or chicken dish at the italian, 15mins to get a mexican chicken takeaway, but it was probably the best meal I had. The poor woman running the place was struggling with a series of non-latin names being thrown at her.
Loudeac to Tinteniac:
Got this split into 2 recordings.
Section 1:
Loudeac to just out of La Cheze: 40m
Was struggling with sleep deprivation now, I often get the sight of another rider in my peripheral vision but this is usually resolved by taking glasses off.
This time the trees seemed to be multi-storey buildings wrapping over the road so I was in a tunnel.
I should have found a spot at Le cheze but kept going, the street lighting had briefly solved the problem. I didn't know how far it was to Plumieux or even that it existed on route, so got my bivvy bag out and planning on 15mins lay on top of it...
1hr 5m later I woke up, freezing cold shivvering like mad.
Section 2: 3h 40m
Took a wrong turn in Plumieux,
1 min stop just out of Meneac
4 min stop just out of St Meen le grand
1 min stop at Quedilliac, I didn't go into the reception spot after the outbound "meal" but must have been stopped by marshalls.
3hrs stop at Tinteniac; I got a reasonable sleep here, 30mins on the table then an hour and a half on the floor iirc, as well as a decent enough meal in the self-serve restaurant.
Where I managed to meet the arrow team members who were riding, Aiden H, Iroiromono (who's had a good sleep in the dorms and were about to crack on) and Steve Scott who arrived as I was tucking into my food, he was gone before I woke. (Only Revelinio was missing)
Tinteniac to Fougeres: 2h 54m, 20.2kmh
12m stop at Saint-Hilaire des Landes: Must have been a stall
Stopped at Fougeres for 1hr
Fougeres to Villaines: 6h 14m, 18.8kmh
8.5m stop at La Tanniere to get a crepe and to speak to a Weegie emigrant who lives there (he'd given a heads up on the audax Ecosse FB group but also spotted the saltire on my jeresey)
6m at Levare, I'd spotted an old direction post on the way out and had to get a picture on the return, a local then offered to take a picture of me with it, how could I say no!
Ambriees - Stopped for 1hr 2 in total, didn't recognize at first and went to supermarket, then saw cafe and stopped again I had time...
5m comfort break
6m stopped in Loup fougeres to take photos
1hr stopped at Fougeres
40m stopped at Villaines: Bounced the control then went to a tabac and to the Carefour Express, looks liek it took 20m to get bottles filled and card stamped then 20 at tabac and carefour
Villaines to Mortagne: 5h 25m, 20kmh
5m comfort break
9m stopped at La Hutte, think it was a stall
21min stop at Sant Calex en Saosnois: Comfort break then sat on a bit of road furniture for a rest
2h 20m at Mortagne; got a reasonable sleep on the floor after eating
Woke to find the Highland guys about to leave so set off with them.
Mortagne to Dreux: 4h 11, 20.4kmh
Stopped at the Tabac in Neuilly for 4mins; I'd already drunk most of what I'd topped up with at Mortagne so got coke for one bottle and poweraid for the other.
Stopped at the tent in Senoches for 8mins, I thought it was longer as I swear I had a snooze in a seat
Rode with an American rider from New Hampshire who was aiming for a 75hrs time into Dreux, I could still ride at his pace.
Stopped at Dreux for 1hr 46m, of which 1.5hrs was probably sleep; at this point I decided although I could crack on into the early hours only a huge oversleep would be a problem.
Dreux to Ramobulliet: 2hrs 11m, 20.5kmh
Left Dreux at 7am
Non-Stop except for Faff at traffic lights and junctions in Dreux
Picked up by a small group of English riders on the climb through Dreux and stayed with them on the flat but lost them around Poigny.
My average speed seems to be fairly consistent once things settled down, 20kmh on the mostly gentle sections and 18ish on the climby bits.
As my only aim was to finish in time I didn't have to push myself, but constantly worried about time in hand, which never seemed to do anything other than bounce between 3hrs and 4hrs.
For Next time I need to get my "base speed" back up, it used to be >25kmh but I've dropped speed work with RRTY and points chasing with inevitable effect
Riding with faster people showed I was capable of their speed, riding on my own I always just dropped back; linked to the "base speed"; I'm not pushing myself for speed, I just got round at a comfortable pace.
I need to make sure I am set up to sleep/rest as close to my start time as possible
I need to make sure I eat properly in the run up, I didn't get a decent lunch or tea on the Sunday so was struggling a bit with energy defict after Mortagne on the way out.
Need to be quicker at controls, the queues were never too bad, but my approach of always going to the cafe on the way out and sitting down to eat has it's limitations, if caféing then grab and go.
Can fit 3 reasonable meals each day in at the self-service restaurants where I hardly had to wait; this and the bog are the only places to sit down...
Better quality sleep would have helped too, sleeping on a hard floor just results in extra aches and pains, I reckon had I slept for 2 or 3 hours at Loudeac Id' have saved on a lot of nap time later, and I wouldn't have been standing shivering next to a sign post.