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I knew it had to happen. The time when I downloaded a route and failed to properly look at where parts of it went. I'm normally pretty good and look at the streetview for all major parts of the route.
I downloaded a 103 mile London Hastings Eastbourne Brighton route which was titled something like 'Pre Triathlon Ride'. I was pretty sure that triathletes only like the flat stuff and have ridden all of the parts to Hastings before so was pretty lazy with my preperations. As all of my long rides start at 12.30pm on a Sunday with limited daylight hours, I need to go pretty quickish to get any decent length rides in.
In Hastings however, this route picked up National Cycle Network 2 (something which I failed to notice on Ride with GPS) which as you in and out of cycle paths etc and off road which slowed my pace considerably.
I did, however, take me along a spectacular section of coastal path coming into Brighton from the Marina end.
Nice ride but the section from Hastings would have been better suited to a cross or MTB.
6/10. Good weather & nice route (if you have time to look at the scenery and appropriate bike aka not a stiff aluminium road bike)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/551109767
http://www.strava.com/activities/171838884