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@jim1985
Benj, steal away. If you want the garmin connect link let me know.
It is quite impressive to look at on the profile map and a really nice route to ride I must admit. As you've porbably worked out, it's two loops, both start going up Coldharbour Lane and end on Box Hill, but have different middles, the first loop did Barhatch and a few other climbs that I don't know the names of, and the second did Leith Hill and Whitedown. You're never far from Dorking which is good if you decide to bail for any reason.
There is one absolutely terrifying descent though, I'd try to re-route it if I were you. It's called Tanhurst road I think, coming off the the top of Leith Hill. Really steep, twisty and narrow, pot holes and loose surface everywhere. I was shitting it on the way down, are some real tube flattening / wheel buckling sections around.