Tomorrow Steve (a friend from work) and I will attempt an IronButt Saddlesore - 1000 miles in less than 24 hours.
The dodgy map on the left shows the key points on the route...
Droitwich to Inverness (via Fort William), then back south along the A1 and M1, then cutting across to Bicester and then home.
Since Steve lives near Oxford he's going to see off an hour earlier than me and I'll meet him at around 06:15 at Frankley Services. At the end I'll finish around 1 hour after Steve so we'll both end up with a similar mileage.
I've started looking at bike SatNav units - so far the Zumo 550 seems the best (especially since the TomTom Rider appears to have been withdrawn - perhaps not waterproof enough?) The Zumo 550 is rated as IPX7 which means it can be submerged to 1 meter for 30 minutes - of course if you find yourself testing this claim with the unit still attached to your bike it's all gone horribly wrong!
So that is the plan - we're hoping to do this in under 22 hours - but we're also going to take it steady. We cycled a 162km Audax a few weeks back and, at around 10 hours overall, we were both shattered. So 22 hours it going to be very tiring.
Hopefully this will be good practice for my Europe trip in a couple of weeks. The plan at the moment is that I'll meet Toni (my wife) in Prague, having first ambled though some of Germany's national parks the week before. Then we go to Poland, Slovakia and back to Prague where she'll catch a flight back. I'm going to race the plane back on my bike (an ST1100 Honda Pan European).
Fingers crossed I'll write another post on Sunday - no doubt in the afternoon as I don't expect to be home until the early hours of Sunday morning.
Safe driving and great adventures,
Jon.
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