Sunday's event is on, and they've moved the women-only event to start then too. The 177 km Master's course starts at 08:00. It has 3,650 metres of climbing. The Senior ride (that's for me then) is just 126 km with 2,300 metres and starts half an hour later. Although there's only 51km in it, that extra distance is expected to take another 3 hours – so 17km/h. Tough stuff.
Bikes are cleaned and oiled. Kit tried on and laid out. Bars and gels ditto (there are only two food stops, both fairly early on). I have the route in my Garmin computer (though some of it is back to front) and a course map and a course profile in the iPhone. That's it, I hope.
