Anyone else on this at the weekend?

I'm on the long course, in terms of time it will be the longest race i've done.

I have a rough target in my head of 16 hours (roughly based on mph and the fact that in terms of mileage and climb, it's about 2/3rds of a BGR, and would hopefully give me a vague indication of where i sit in relation to that).

But to be quite honest that's a shot in the dark and i could well take longer.

Anyone got any thoughts as to whether taking the Old County Tops descent from Helvellyn down to Wythburn is massively beneficial in terms of time saved, not too much early stress on the legs? I've only done it in ascent and it hurt!