Planning a route
The book contains all the details of what to use to plan a ride.
The Programme
The riders now find that the secret hotel is 400+ miles away in the Brno Czech republic and they have around 36 hours to get there and pick up as many bonus locations as they can on the way
They are also told there will be no scoring in Brno so effectively they are riding a 5 day leg with a compulsory 12 hour stop in the middle
The theme of the rally is SPORTS and riders have been challenged to find a sport not included in the book and take a picture of it to get extra points.
There is is a ferry bonus where riders gain points willon ferries that last more than an hour.
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The sleep bonus is a maximum of 16 hours over 4 nights on the road in a maximum of 4 stops. Riders are encouraged to use the slepp bonus as it will be difficult to accrue that many point per hour collecting bonuses
For the first time on an Iron Butt Event riders are also able to claim the sleep bonus while on a ferry by collecting a receipt "on the ferry" at the start end end of the trip.
In Europe now most events have adopted symbols rather than extended text.This is to help the non English speakers which is important when 9 nationalities are involved.
Some of the bonus book pages
To gain the bonus riders have to go to the Coordinates on the memory stick and take the same picture as in the book with their numbered flag in front of it
Extras can be gained by collecting multiple bonuses of the same type
How do the riders decide where to go? The top riders will have a system to plan an efficient route.Lesser mortals will go somewhere they wish to visit and sweep up bonuses along their route.
From leaving the meeting they had around 11 hours to sleep and plan a route from 405 bonus locations, several possible Combination bonuses located all across Europe