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In the ice, all tyres are shite unless they're proper ice tyres.
My suggestion would be a set of mud tyres and a set of ice tyres. That's what I'm bringing.
I think what I personally found hard about switching from 1 lap to 2 lap stints after dark was that I was trying to maintain the pace of 1 lap for 2 laps.
Funny enough, I felt crap in my 2nd lap but went faster.
Having now done big dog solo I'm more prepared for 2 or 3 lap stints. Tbc how we approach it this year as a pair but at least 2 lots of 2 lap stints would be nice to have a longer rest.
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I mentally noted a few of these already from the aforementioned writeup, haha. Tyres is the big question mark... I'm currently on 2.2" X-kings, don't think they're going to be up to the task!
I'm also not sure of our strategy with swapping, had not expected people to go for a single lap. We tentatively planned longer stints that allow nearly 6 hours uninterrupted rest for others so everyone gets a decent opportunity to sleep. But it sounds like it was really tiring so maybe that's not viable. Early days again to be thinking about that.