MSeries said:
Cracking route. I think you might be being a bit optimistic with 10-11 hours though. Prove me wrong, go for it.
As the ride organiser, I have a bit of a balancing act between not putting off the fitter riders with the potential slowness of the ride, and not terrifying the slower riders (including myself!) with the severity of it so I'm hoping for 10-11 hours, but I am well aware that we will have 13 hours of daylight from when we set off on Sunday!
I'm just hoping that we don't also have 13 hours of wind and rain because this could be a brutal ride in bad weather conditions. I'd be tempted to shorten the ride significantly or even call it off if that was likely to be the case.
If the weather, riders' legs or time are causing concern we could always come back the easy way from Waddington via Padiham and the A646. I'd prefer to stick to the plan but it is a good bailout option.
Ooh, I've just gone back through the thread and noticed that I hadn't added
Kestevan to the list of possibles - done now.