Originally Posted by
The Octopus
Leaving Saturday at 0700 to start our fleche!
Curious to hear how you guys and gals figure your ETAs at the controls and various other points along the route where you might want to stop. My route is dead flat and the weather looks to be very good (warm and dry with a slight headwind or cross-wind during the day). I've figured rolling averages of 15mph during daylight and 13mph at night for our group, plus a total of 7 hours off the bike. What do the rest of you do?
i was lucky enough that our captain had worked out rough open/close times to get to controls (even tho controls don't have open/close times on a fleche, apparently), so we had that to gauge our pace.
also another team mate made a spreadsheet that estimated arrival times; of course neither estimate was exact, but good enough to guide us.
in the end, we were really lucky we didn't have any mechanicals that might have cost us valuable minutes towards the end.
good luck!