Its Good, but battery life is an issue, typically 8hrs, in retrospect I would prefer a GPS with replaceable batteries it also has a rather non intuitive PC  to device interface e.g.  it only appears to allow the downloading to the gps of one tracklog at a time, you need to double check its in the gps.

Nice report

Interesting to read about how much hike a bike you had to do. I just spent 2 days doing the 1st section of the Joe Route http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=2814918  (up to Ishgil) and was dismayed by the extent of pushing and carrying my bike I had to do.
I guess it goes with the terrain.

I can understand why you might carry a back pack rather than a frame bag its hard to carry a bike with a frame bag

Craig

Not finishing the TD is mainly in the head, virtually all mechanicals can be fixed with time and effort and physical issues (short of breaking something) can be addressed with suitable resting and slowing up. Personally I got to about 2 weeks before I lost my Mojo and really started to not enjoy the ride.
I realised by that stage I wasnt going to make my target of 20 days and to put it simply I didnt like riding my bike enough to ride 16hrs a day every day !

But my experience from doing other endurance racing (12Hr events) told me  that  at some stage in the race you are going to wish you were somewhere else so I didnt give up or start thinking of reasons for stopping, I just plodded along and focused on getting a good 8hrs of sleep. I finally made it in 24days and was relieved I wouldnt have to do it again !

Recognising that there is a very good chance that in any endurance event you will go through periods when you really are not having fun and that this is all part of the experience and not a trigger to start thinking about giving up.
Not having a plan B helps, I had no idea how I was going to get to Banff if I didnt cycle there !
It also helps if you can wind in your ego and only have the expectation of completing the race rather than some specific time or position.

Craig

Also do you know whatever happened to Craig on the day that he left Elkford? It seems like he had to return to Fernie.

Hi Dennis,
My Bottom Bracket finally seized up 5 miles out of Elkford. I pushed my bike back to Elkford and then got two hitches to Fernie to get a new BB, lost 6-7hrs. When I finally restarted I hit some killer mud after a thunderstorm and my de-railler/hanger got mangled for the 3rd time this trip.
Congratulations on a well deserved 2nd place.
Craig