Totally forgot I’d signed up for this and have eaten pasties and cake all year and ridden the bike about 3 times.
Got the route and not quite sure how I’ll fare, comparing it to my last decent mtb ride end of Nov last year 61k in the peak with 1900m of climbing in just under 6hrs moving time.
There’s a lot more road in the HONC route its 98k with 1400m of climbing – wondering if I can get round it in less than 8 hours. 50k wouldn’t be a problem but that just feels like cheating.!
Anybody else gonna be at the back of the pack with me???