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Old 09-01-03, 09:47 AM
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stewartp
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I posted this elswhere on the RoadBiker newsletter thread -apologies for thems that are reading it twice:

I did PBP this year. Finished in 88 hours 45 mins. Planned to do 89 hours 59 minutes & 59 seconds!

Its not the cycling that's hard, the route is mostly undulating, only a couple of hills that are worth the mention. The main problem is sleep deprivation.

We started at 22:00 Monday (so we'd been up since 6:00 am) and finished 14:45 Friday. and between those times we only had about 9 hours sleep.

My Brooks saddle stopped my butt from parting company with the rest of my body. My main problem is numb toes and fingers and a loss of grip strength in my right hand.

I cannot recommend PBP highly enough as an experience of a lifetime. While I was on the ride I couldn't figure out why people do it more than once. Now I'm done I'm already planning for 2007

Stew
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