Originally Posted by
Lesper4
Well start time is 5:00am and 15 hours of ride time puts the finish at 8:00pm. Dinner and then drive home should be no problem. Althought this is my first double I would like to be closer to 14 hours. The guys I know who have done this in the past suggest 10min breaks and 30 mins for lunch. To cut down on total time. Anyone how I still don't see a need for another night.
If you can get up at 4:30am, spend 15 hours on the bike and then drive till 11:30pm, then no, you don't need another night.
When I rode Fall Death Valley, I got up at 5:30, got to the finish at 8 pm, tried to drive home, made it as far as Ridgecrest (it was about 10:30) and figured that $80 for a hotel wasn't worth risking to kill myself driving the rest of the way. But I didn't get full 8 hours of sleep the previous night. Maybe that would've helped.