Day 1

London - Ditchling, Sussex
Bit of a late start out of London, assembling the gear and making final tweaks.
GoPro Hero mounted but bit wobbly - hopefully can still capture some footage.
Weather pretty nice, clouds building but generally sunny. A bike race in Richmond park forces the first route change, but then through lovely tracks in Wimbledon Park before escaping the not so lovely outskirts of London.
Out towards Chipstead have a strange encounter with a blue van with two occupants that seem to have a combined IQ of about 3, and shout as they go past and well as trying to hit one of us on the head. Makes you worry for the world, and fortunately an accident was avoided. Let's hope the gopro caught the license plate.
Saw some shooting event going on just before crossed M25. Could hear it from a long way off.
Made the same mistake of seeing a nice place for lunch, deciding to press on and then not finding anywhere for ages and totally losing energy (the bonk). Had a mediocre fish pie and roast and shortly after we trucked up Turners Hill - to those that know it, it's no place to hack up it on zero energy, having just finished a big lunch and with overloaded bikes (more on that later). By the time we got to the top we'd practically passed out.