Check out this google spreadsheet I made.
That’s the read-only version, but you get the idea of how you could do this yourself. Rather than look at the entire 200 mile ride and say “geez, I hope I average 15.5mph the whole way” – this sets specific check point goals. Major meal stops take longer, so I’ve accounted for that by lowering the pace.
Personally I like to work things like this on a fairly structured schedule. I’m not going to cry if I’m an hour late getting to a checkpoint, but if possible I’ll try to make up some of that time later.
You may have noticed that I plan to ride from my house, rather than roll out of UW Husky Stadium. To all you haters, I’m not cheating. I have it all worked out that I’ll ride 24 miles between my house and REI Corporate HQ in Kent. From that point on, I’ll stick to the standard route and my mileage will be (within a mile or so) in synch with the other 9,999 cyclists. I’ll have traveled 200 miles when I arrive in Holladay park in Portland.
Reasons I’m doing this:
The next thing to solve is get my Garmin 305 cyclocomputer to last longer than 10 hours.
CONGRADULATIONS SEAN !!!!
You did it in one day. Way to go.