Although Ride London this year is in Essex and not Surrey Hills, I choose to do just the 60 mile route due to my health (asthma again!). Which meant cycling out of the start at Westminster up through Epping and Ongar and then back to the finish at the Tower Bridge. I took Russ and Dave (the physio) and the bikes by car and we parked up near the Blind Beggar in Whitechapel – since the roads were all shut in Central London for the ride. After cycling as a group of three for a few miles Russ then took off and joined up with Evan and Gareth (who’d started…