cruel man; that's going to be my hardest ride of the year (punishment for dreaming up the GdS idea)
Not as cruel as it could have been. I've tamed down the Battle-Wittersham section from the version Manotea and I did in November, which was itself tamed down from a version I did previously.
If you look on a map around Seddlescombe/Brede/Peasmarsh you'll see what could have been. On balance, I thought that the choppy first third and downright hilly last third meant gratuitous hills in the middle third was potentially a bit unfair.
It might, however, make an appearance in the final route given there is very little difference in horizontal distance...