Getting up at 4am was a bastard but not getting stuck behind people walking up any decent hill was worth it. The whole Newlands Corner-Leatherhead section was pain in the arse for it when I did a relatively late start, as was the Kingston to Wimbledon Village bit.
It's a completely different route up into Essex now. No-one knows where the bottlenecks with this route will be.
It's a completely different route up into Essex now. No-one knows where the bottlenecks with this route will be.