Eccles Cake and Adoption

My favourite ride from Ipswich is out to Orford and the best bakery in the East (or perhaps the UK), the Pump Street Bakery. Run by Joe, her husband Simon and father it is great destination and surrounded by wonderful roads.

Cycling gives one time to think... I explained to my young daughters that I was raising money for Coram (no one has been spared) and told them about their work with adoption. My girls needed time to understand how and why. It made me realise just how important this work is and how much we take for granted. The ordered lives we enjoy are a great privilege.

Here I am (looking a little concerned) in the sun out the front of the bakery enjoying the best coffee and Eccles cake you will get anywhere.

I have been riding between 50 and 100 miles a week and alternating intensive weeks and easy weeks. The body needs time to recover. I seem to be stuck on doing 17-18 miles a hour no matter whether I am in flat Suffolk or bumpy Surrey.