121, 120. Fryin' Barnet

My cycling buddies live in remote areas of London - Balham and Sheen. These sleepy hamlets are both well placed for the Surrey Hills, where Ride 100 will get down to its hilly business but they are also well south of the river and so, while D and N swan off to Box Hill with their bikes stashed in the boots of their motor cars, unless I get up before I go to bed I have to leave them to it. Instead, I head north, often to the delights of Friern and High Barnet. On my reckless route, I take in the previously mentioned Regent's Park before heading to Swain's Lane and Highgate. Some local burghers, many hundreds of years ago, stood scratching their heads as they tried to decide what name to give to their recently built settlement. Looking about them there was little to choose from apart from an inexplicably and abnormally high gate. It was late, everyone wanted to get home and so they went with High Gate. 
From there, head over to Muswell Hill then beyond to the vast, endless undulations of North London before reaching the outer limits of this city - the M25 near Potter's Bar.  En route there us much to see: a classic Odeon Cinema in Barnet,  robust the Deco-ish 30's mansion blocks about Golder's Green, Friern Barnet's classic town hall.

This particular leg-stretcher clocks up 30 miles, returning through Finchley and West Hampstead before having to stop at the world's most famous pedestrian crossing to wait as Beatles fans lark about outside Abbey Road studios which was recently sold by EMI  and has since been converted into a Kwik Fit franchise. 

60 miles on bike
5 mile 'run'
1 soccerball match: 48 mins running around; 12 mins shotstopper.