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125 miles overnight, unsupported, on a fixed-gear bike with one small bag. Time to pack some toys. Here's what I plan to take for the Dun Run 2005:
- Two spare inner tubes
- Lumicycle Li-ion/5w/12w halogen front lamps
- CatEye TLD600 rear lamp + 2xAAA spares
- Photonz 2x rear, 1x front
- Flagpole & "Dunwich or Bust!" flag
- Watch with 45-min "snack now" beeper
- Puncture kit
- Flick pliers with knife blade (cheap petrol-station Leatherman clone - expendable and useful)
- Cool tool (the best multi-tool in the world, ever)
- Spoke key
- Mini pump
- Train tickets
- Plenty of cash
- Plastic
- First-aid kit (optimise for blisters, hayfever, tendon inflammation, chafing, road rash, NSAIDs)
- Vaseline (a small vanity tin is ideal)
- Strapping (on long runs my ankles get ouchy: this is a me-specific)
- Phone (with compass and torch built in, gods I love the Nokia 5140)
- Snaplight
- Map & case
- House keys
- Power bars x4
- Bonk gel
- Strawberry bootlaces, jelly babies or similar (sugar is good in the last hour or two)
- Water bottle (refill from filling stations and halfway)
- Loo roll in a baggie (the halfway rest stop has been known to run out)
- Best shorts
- Socks
- Shortsleeve jersey
- Lifa longsleeve base layer (when it gets colder midnight-5am, this layered with the jersey works nicely)
- Bandanna (warm head, minimal pack)
- Swimmies & pack towel (we're going to the seaside!)
- Contacts lenses and case
- Sunnies with day and night lenses
- Specs in case of dry eyes
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