Another principle is jettisoned: no longer can I call myself "Simon 'I don't do 300s' Spooner”.
Which just leaves me with 'Doesn't do dumps on Audaxes' and 'Hasn't DNFd on an Audax', though at one point on Saturday I was semi-considering the latter. A lovely day, a lovely route, new territory - thatched cottages, village cricket matches, village greens, duck ponds, lanes, pot-holes (ie not like the Welsh routes I’m used to) - but half-way through the Portsmouth/Selbourne leg I felt a wave of sleepiness come over me and felt my energy levels seep away. A planned inter-control tea-shop break did the job though, and I was OK for the rest of the ride. Not quite sure how a cheese salad, cup of tea and glass of orange juice can ward off sleepiness for 10 hours, though.
I hope you managed your 25 miles back your parents OK Damarell, on your mobile library, and well done on your first 300.
My computer gave 3019m of ascent, but around 100 or so metres in the 22km ride to the start, and consistently registers around 25% less than gps readings.