Well that was fun - I even enjoyed lots of it at the time, which wasn't in the plan at all!
My aims were to get to Fleet Moss before grouping - succeeded by 10 minutes - and to finish in under 20 hours - succeeded by about half an hour
Would have been an hour or so faster if it weren't for a minor navigational error on the way to Hell Gap - typically, the one section of the route that we'd recce'd beforehand. The BMC Harveys map only shows one fence line, and I turned my brain off, saw never noticed the fence junction and we swung south instead of NE. Oops.
Was worried in advance about being grouped with some numpties, having heard horror stories. Luckily we ended up grouping with 5 others who we'd been passing/passed by for most of the day and it seemed to work well (they're probably complained about the 2 numpties who joined them at Cray).

When do entries open for next year?!