If When I do 2023 I will be 70, week off 71 and while I have done 50 odd 200s and a few 300s in the last 7 years I haven't yet gone beyond. Fortunately I am almost finished work and the Time&Date calculator says I have 1,301 days till PBP 2023 (assuming a Sun 20 Aug start?).
I have been wasting effort on some models, average speed, time at controls, eating, sleeping etc and as I am pretty full value I looks a bit daunting to keep up an adequate pace so have to work at everything, faster on bike, less time off bike.
So its push the distances up and actually "train", plan requires at least one SR this year else I am kidding myself. Performance on the longer distances will guide where to put the effort I suppose and the probability of converting the dream into reality.
I spent a lot of time queuing in controls in 2015 and I’d like to reduce that in 2023.
The queuing does concern me as I am not fast enough on the bike to allow time to queue. Other than the essential getting card stamped is it practical to otherwise skip a control if there are queues, will I find food etc elsewhere that will be faster.
Also I am fairly much a big sleeper so this is going to be something I have to train to better manage. Everyone is different I guess but is it best to plan (longer) sleep stops or just take shorter as needed.
I've started wearing a HR strap again, this month ( after a long period ) and am getting good results limiting my max and min heart rates on long rides. Not getting hungry, not fading, no slowing down over time.
Fading is also something I have to work on, will look into a HR strap
This is not a "saddle" thread but I just have to find a saddle that will take me 1200 , I have many that will do for 100, 200 but not more, have tried all the usual suspects without finding "the" saddle so will have to have a proper fit to see if that helps.
2023, 2027, 2031, I don't think I will make it to 10 PBPs though but one would be nice.