Well, lets start off mate.. last year due to issues, me getting lost twice with my riding buddy and us helping a broken down rider… we were the slowest out there. We took best part of 14 hours.
To put into perspective, we did 60 miles of the Ridgeway last weekend in 6 hours 21 mins, so we’re not exactly terrible riders lol. But the SDW is just hill after hill, climb after climb. I’m 40 and my riding mate is 52. Our target this year is to complete in 12 hours. We’re also taking a new riding buddy who neither of us have met yet, but know from a motorbike forum. He did the Brecon beast last year and is a bit quicker than my mate, but i think not quite as quick as me.
To answer your Qn, well, only you can say… but IMO you’re taking too much. We dumped LOADS of stuff at the 1/2 way point last year, packets of figg rolls, jellys, all-sorts.
Sandwiches for the coach, sure, why not… the feed stations are very good, we had burgers and coffee at one LOL. There’s also a petrol station we plan on using if needed.
To answer your last bit…sure mate, hook up with us if you want what will be a nice ride at a normal human pace 🙂 I’ll be rocking up about 2.30pm at QECP in a lightish blue mondeo, my mate in a Mondeo estate in Grey. I’m on a Giant XTC29 and he’s on a Lappierre zesty. You’re more than welcome to hook up and ride with us. If you get bored, just bugger off and leave us.
Only rule of play we have is ‘never leave the last man’ of course you can climb sections quicker, that’s down to preference, but you wait at top for last man… That’s possibly going to be my mate as his climbing speed is slow and steady. So i’ll be waiting for him when needed.
Cya there mate, don’t be shy.