The most frequent question is, “Why?” There’s no one answer or easy explanation. The charity fundraising is certainly a motivation and the Air Ambulance is a good cause. There’s the friendship. There’s the travel and the scenery and I suppose for some getting away from one daily routine to replace it with the simplicity of turning the wheels. By this stage the answer to “why?” Is simply a dogged determination to do it, and a refusal to give in. 85 miles today and a straight 900ft climb out of Epernay to begin.