A long shot I know but I'll offer the suggestion anyway.
We all need to be at Ness Point at 0802 and Lands End at 1622. That doesn't leave a great deal of room for sightseeing and lounging about along the way. We could, if we felt like it, ride
en masse using 2nd man drop-off or similar.
For those unfamiliar with the method, we have a designated run leader who always rides at the front (hence the name run *leader*), a designated back-marker (aka tail-end Charlie), who always rides at the back. Whoever's riding in 2nd place immediately behind the run leader gets "dropped" at key junctions to point the way to the rest of the pack and does that until the back-marker waves him on. Whoever's now in 2nd place gets dropped next time and so on.
Or we could carry on as normal, wandering about aimlessly on our own.
What do we think chaps?