Joined: 15 May 2008
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| Is it July 2009 you are doing the E2E?
If it is NEXT MONTH, you should have your route, sleeping qtrs, meal stops, public lavatories, hospitals and most important - bike shops all sorted out by now.
All the planning shouls have been finalised about four months ago to leave yourselves 15 weeks to train.
You need to finalise the route six months ahead to map it for hills, and then go out and find some worse hills to train on.
Sorry for being so blunt, but the E2E is not a Sunday afternoon spin.
Also remember that even in July it rains, and no cyclist likes that, especially when there are fifty miles more to ride. This is when it pays to know where the next cafe is; and you will know that because you have learned the route.
I rode up the major roads and through the towns. It is better to do this so the Emergency Paramedic Unit won't be messing about down narrow country lanes.
Don't be afraid of big trucks, they are the good drivers. Its the company rep's in their AUDIs you need to watch!!! Plus, if you take the country lanes, the locals tend to speed down the roads they know; which you don't.
A30 - A38 - A46 etc etc..
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