overlap

I completed the 100km + 1280m height gain, and had far less difficulty than I was prepared for. Total ride time under four hours, and if it hadn't been for a puncture with 7 or 8 miles to go, I'd have been quicker still. So I reached the finish mostly hacked off about a puncture while I'd been feeling pretty good and was still moving well. And then I checked the big screen at the finish and found that I was in the top forty finishers (out of 750, though not all were doing exactly the same ride), which was a remarkably pleasant surprise on commuting fitness alone!
This is the second big hill.
This is further up the same hill - if you look at the skyline directly above the car in the distance, that's where the road leads. Eventually.
And this is the long leg into the hairpin bend over that piece of skyline - one of the five biggest road hills in Wales and there was another of those five still to come!
But what goes up must come down - this a lovely sweeping descent where my local knowledge meant I could catch and overtake a few people :-) No more pictures, but I rather think it gives you something of a feel for the important features of the landscape!