Ladies Ldn to Brighton Ride - Saturday 1st October

I've voted for 1st October too, as it's the only one I can do.

I have another couple of rides in the diary, and my family will be really cheesed off if I keep not being there to cook the dinner, do the ironing, go to the shops, hang out the washing and all the other chores that I go cycling to escape from.

Eeeyyy! And stuff La Famille. You get some exercise/fun/day out and they learn how to be a bit more self sufficient.

Right...have decided I need to be a be more proactive about My First Ride, and would quite like to make a bit more of an effort.

How do you go about doing a recce of the route? I mean, I know you get and cycle it yourself before hand, and you can follow a map blah blah blah but if you haven't got a fancy Garmin, how do you do it? Just make yourself a route crib sheet, with OS map to back up?