A nice not too hilly training loop, Please

[Toks]

Hi guys, myself and Steph need a hilly (not too hilly!) training loop that we can train on (3-5 times) before the Dragon Ride. I once did an box hill training loop with John Ibbo many years ago which I think is the Ballbuster route. I like that one cause it was nice and easy to remember. Can anyone think of any other circular loop - ideally quite easy to remember. Cheers

[Dombo]

Go along Chipstead valley road to kingswood then along dorking road to box hill. down box hill, cross A24 and up to ranmore, turn left, down to dorking thru one way system then up to leith hill/coldharbour. Follow road along til you get to end then turn right. follow that to holmbury hill then head generally back towards peaslake/dorking following signs. back up box hill and along main road back to coulsdon. should be about 50 miles or so.

Another is to go out to hever and back via woldingham, down titsey, thru limpsfield, limpsfield chart, four elms and back the same way so you get to climb titsey.

First one is close to the ToSH or legs of steel route. The hever route is my own, starting from Caterham/Coulsdon area. Best hills though are out towards Dorking which I use for Dragon/Etape training. sorry if they're a bit vague but i just tend to ride around, get lost and then find somewhere i recognise. you're bounded by the M23, A3 and A25 so hard to get really lost in the surrey hills.

[Andrew G]

Check out the Routes section, I've put a number of rides in there of varying distance and hilliness.

[Toks]

mmm... the chance of getting lost looks high. Thanks though

[Andrew G]

Photocopy a couple of bits of map Toks. I normally have a piece or two of A4 folded in my pocket when I go out on rides where I don't know exactly where I'm going or trying something new. You're never going to be that far from somewhere you know roughly where it is. You only need to head in the rough direction of a place and you'll find a nice new lane that way .pm me your email and I'll send you a couple of pdfs of useful sections of map, no excuses not to go exploring then .

[Roy Green]

Hope Steph gives you a good trouncing, Toks!

[Marcus]

[quote="Roy Green"]Hope Steph gives you a good trouncing, Toks!