Originally Posted by
Homeyba
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...
Wow! I think you've missed my point. I never thought or meant to say this was easy. I'm among the slowest, and that's the group I'm trying to support. I've done 600. The cutoff to the finish on my 600 was 3:04 to run the last 31 miles. That's my 10 mph reference. My point is, at 3:03 to the finish, why tell me I have failed, when I, or really anyone, can easily ride 11 mph for 3 hours to make the final cutoff?
I'm pretty slow, but I could have been an hour late to this checkpoint, and possibly still made the final cutoff, if allowed to continue.