[Thinks someones taking this too seriously] Ride your bike and have fun. Bivi in a bush shelter and have a few pints. 200k is easily doable in a day (they easily do that in day on the tour divide) and depending on Stuarts start time and lights you could just do it as a twelve hour ride, twenty six a...

Part ofthe lure of getting out into the hills, is being able to switch of from the 'normal' world, and so the mobiles always switched off (still carry it in case of emergency).