How to Pace a Day With Four Food Stops

Four stops in sixty kilometres sounds like a lot of eating. It works if you plan the day around the second one.

The pastry stop is small on purpose. One thing, one coffee, back on the bike inside twenty minutes. The farm lunch is the long one, and everything before it exists to make you hungry for it.

Warm custard pastry on a cafe table

Ride the First Third Easy

Most people go too hard before the first stop and pay for it at kilometre forty. Keep the morning conversational. If you cannot talk, you are racing the table.

Let the Van Do Its Job

The van is not a failure. It carries the spare layers, the water and anyone whose legs have had enough. Using it at kilometre fifty means you arrive at supper with a smile instead of a grudge.