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@Ndeipi
I know I'm cheating with a mid-week post but I've been meaning to try this route for ages.
Lovely morning ride, set off in the dark from Nairobi and climbed up to Banana Hill, I knew I was near the top when I passed the massive sign saying AIDS KILLS - CHOOSE LIFE. Then a on a long gentle decline I zipped past the coffee farms and Kenyan primary schools to Kiambu and then straight on towards town on a fast, main road with a sine-shape rolling profile (like that animation ^^), great for getting four or five big intervals into the last section of the ride. And of course this turned into 8km of hilly traffic jams in returning to Nairobi. Still a brilliant route, would ride again.
44.5km, 412m climbing, 1hr 40mins. So a modest average of 26.7kph.
See all that green stuff above the thick yellow horizontal line? That's excellent cycling country on my doorstep: coffee farms, tea farms, the small vegetable gardens of villagers, school grounds, acacia plantations, etc.