Quote Originally Posted by crowhill View Post
4. Schedule: Stick to the schedule on the first leg. It ensures you don't go too fast and blow up/ If you want to beat your schedule, there's more slack on leg 4 & 5 than 1 & 2.
Looking at schedules of fast (< 19hrs) completion times what I noticed was that the first leg times, while quick, weren't excessively so, probably 22hr schedule or thereabouts. Where the difference came was that the following legs were pretty much the same pace, i.e. there was little or no slowing down. At standard 23.5hr pace the Skiddaw leg averages around 3mph whereas the Wasdale-Honsiter leg is 2MPH, bump up the speed to 2.5MPH and you are an hour quicker for that leg.

Quite a few rounds seem to be cutting down on the time at road crossings, typically spending 5 minutes or less at the change-overs. Your team does need to be on the ball for this though.