I always make the mistake of taking too much food and water.....I normally just take some jelly babies, emergency rations and enough energy powder to last me the distance. As the food/drink checkpoints are pretty regular water is always round the corner.
For those interested I plan to reccie the Fleet moss / middle tongue / Great Whernside section late feb/early March - will raise a reccie thread nearer the time for those interested (although I know some of the route is on private land so this would have to be avoided)
Muddy Retriever - are you going to get your entry in or bottle it....hows the pie and pizza eating going and have you lost that weight yet ?