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it certainly isn't! all the hills are easy do-able. big group on a calm day will fly.
I just think anyone planning to ride 50/14 brakeless straight outa hoxton for their first long ride will suffer.
it's ok for us to say HTFU when we're ten miles ahead and feeling fine, but I foresee a slog for the unfit. preperation is important (not like my ten pints at south beers) especially if you have that fucker of a wind. then again, I am rather old.
as for the route, Sam's right, there's no hill-dodging, wherever you go, but you needn't do the horrible coombe road/gravel hill bit that we did. come out of London through crystal palace and annerly instead.