THE CYCLING CLIMBS OF EAST ANGLIA

This is the toughest climb in East Anglia (not the most prestigious title amongst English roads but nonetheless true) and has been rewarded with two 12% gradient signs marking this.  It has a long false flat beginning but truly gets going after about 800m with one of two sections of tough gradient.  After this has eased back, regain your strength and prepare for a very nasty 500m.  This section will surprise you – around a right hand bend comes a ramp far steeper than you were expecting.  Here is where the pain comes and, for once in East Anglia, the slope does not peter out before you feel you've had a chance to enjoy it.