Starting road training

I'm in Brixton, so I've a got a route that goes Brixton > Battersea Park > Chelsea > Putney > 2 or 3 times around Richmond park > Chiswick > Hammersmith > Back through Chelsea to Brixton. A pleasant and varied 40/45 miles that's easy to knock off 2 or 3 times a week.

rab - the same distance and you can head straight down the A23, round croydon, then i go up croham valley road, out through selsden, left at farleigh, church lane, then up beddlestead road to the top of the downs looking over the m25 and sussex. you're in fields once you're past selsden. escape the city man!