It starts and finishes at Brian Rourke's shop in Burslem which is not an easy place to get to from here. Also, I don't know what parking would be like, I expect there will be a lot of cars from riders travelling to the event from a distance.
I was reckoning that the effort of last weekend would be similar to riding this. At least the surface won't be as slippery if (when?) needing to walk!