We had a little bit of a lie in this morning, it was about
9am when we got up. It was a little chilly at first but soon warmed up.
The morning was spent having another planning session. If
this is the amount of planning which goes into a 24hr race I would hate to have
to do it for something like Iditabike or the Arrowhead, I’m not sure my brain
could cope with that. Fortunately Carole appears to be much better at the
planning and organising than I am and is keeping me on track. The basic upshot
of the planning is that we have realised that we have a) far too much caffeine
and b) not enough gels, or not ones without caffeine in anyway. There was a
period during my last 24hr, the 2013 WorldChampionships in Australia, when I had a very dodgy stomach and with
hindsight we think this may have been down to an excess of caffeine.
Difficulty: Low
Difficulty in the middle of the night when 17hrs worth of tired: More
Margin for error: None
We have also been trying to work out a rough
calorie-consumption estimate per lap and then work out how we can get this much
into me, in an easily digested form and minimising any longer stops while still
be able to get hot food at the points of the race where it will be coldest.
Planning went on until well after lunch, and then I took the
bike out for a few more laps of the course. It’s not actually marked out yet,
but I can remember the lap from the 2012 WorldChampionships pretty well (I went round it often enough!) and have been
practicing that, trying a couple of different kinds of tyres and suchlike.
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