Originally Posted by
chewybrian
...If it were up to me, I'd set the control cutoffs at about 17 mph from the end and work back to the start. Let the rider to decide when to push or rest. If you want sleep or have a breakdown, you could ride a 17 pace, or more, to the finish if needed. Why cut people off at a 10 mph pace when anyone (even me!) can ride faster than that?
First off, it's not a 10mph pace, it's a little over an 8mph pace. Have you done a 1200k? The overall average time
includes all your off the bike time. That
includes sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom, BS'ing etc. If you average 17mph on a 1200k brevet you are going to finish somewhere around 43-44hrs. That would put you in the fastest 5% of all riders. If it was so easy to average 8mph there wouldn't be so many DNF's...