On September 16th I suggested that Steve might get back to WR pace in early November. This was based on him, at the time, doing about 210 miles per day. In the last three days he has averaged 225 miles per day. It's interesting to see how he's done that.
Here is his progress from 7th-15th September. The grey dashed line represents a standard speed (gradient of line) and distance (length of line) for comparison. Over this period, his average speed has remained pretty constant, with the exception of a slow day 38 (14th September). You can see where he stops for lunch as the little dip about a third of the way along each day.
In the last four days, he's cut right down on lunch stop time, with no kink visible on his daily progress lines. This is closer to Kurt's riding strategy. Yesterday was notable in that he combined lack of long stops with a higher than usual moving speed to give him his big daily distance.
If he were to be able to keep this up for a while, he'll make good progress on the WR schedule, hitting WR pace around the 1st of October.