I decided to skip it this time, having managed to fit in only one 100k audax in the whole of 2016!
I’ve ridden a couple of flatter 200k audax, and they were fine. Have my eye on doing a few of them this year, and stepping up to 300k next year. After that, 400k isn’t that big a jump – when my glass is half full, at least.
Anyone interested should try and track down any issues of Arrivee, the AUK magazine, which have articles on the last one. AUKs do like to ramble on about how horrific these events are. Sure I read somewhere that the guy who was first back to London in 2013 didn’t sleep till Thirsk on the return leg – but I’m not sure how he could do that without running ahead of control opening times?
Someone on here did it* last time and posted some great stuff about it, and had a blog. A search might find it
*Edit – it was ir-bandito, but I can’t find the actual thread – presumably buried about half way through his 200+ pages of threads!