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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warchild" data-source="post: 279811" data-attributes="member: 4">I'll not be posting routes until after the IBA has done the review its going to do.However.....     <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> For those wise enough to attend WFO-6 in Park City this weekend, I am putting together a Powerpoint slideshow of the several dozen photos that were taken during the event, including some quite scary photos of myself in the latter stages,  these photos truly show the Face of the Exhausted Insanity.....   <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> Normally, I myself alone, would not.Key to the success was all in the planning. When all was said and done, I was able to keep 75% of my normal sleeping habits. This is a huge, huge advantage over those who take a full 22-ish hours to bang out a BBG.  That doesn't cut it for very long. If you can obtain only 2-ish hours to sleep every night - if that - well, that pretty much guarantees a halt to your ride after only a few days.But to have 4+ hours  of pure sleep every night, night after night, this paid huge dividends.As did having Brian Roberts - who knows his way around a Blackbird since he owns one, and has the tools/time/know-how to use them - maintain the machine while I slept. For me to have had to worry/fret about this tasking in addition to the energy requirements it takes just to ride a BBG day-after-day, this would have been a very costly in the form of energy wasted.</blockquote>

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