Box Hill piece of cake and Leith Hill evil b'strd

Bank holiday Monday and a very quick trip south of London to try out the two main hills on the London 100 ride.

First we arrive at the bottom of Box Hill and decide to do this part of the ride straight away.  

Piece of cake, very similar to Olmstead road up Mont Royal in Montreal.

Pretty nice view at the top too.

Next we have a route planned to get us between Box Hill and Leith Hill, but due to a combination of bad route planning, bad London traffic and Garmin being set on track up instead of north up ( I hate that, why, why use that view) this idea is abandoned and we fetch the car and drive straight to the bottom of Leith Hill.

Leith Hill was awful, nasty sharp climbs and pretty unrelenting, but at least I have tried it. Although I can think of better ways to have spent a bank holiday Monday.

Time for my reward.  Cheers!