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I'm here to ride a legendary London Edinburgh London the 1400 kilometres. It is the first time I have traveled to the United Kingdom. First time I'm in London and first time I'm here and taking this trip and finishing this trip. It will be out of this world for me. An endurance competition is how much you can endure how much you can ride how long you can last can you go one more day? it's taking yourself to the next level it's pushing yourself beyond what you think you can do and now starting at the beginning of June Hmm I did a double Iron Man and I'm the current GB National Ultra Distance Triathlon Champion.

I'm a little bit worried. I have aspirations that go beyond my capabilities. I've only been cycling as an adult for three years. In four years I've never done a trip where I stopped riding at the end of one day and started again the next day, so it would be a completely new experience and hope

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y, I mean, I don't necessarily know how I'm doing. I'll deal with it. I am quite meticulous in uploading content to various platforms on the internet and religiously check which segments I have earned. I just lost one about 10 minutes ago while I was sitting here when my boss of five six years.

A while ago he asked me or told me that we should build the factory in China and I directly raised my hand and said, if you send me to China, this is my personality when we came back to what's the one thing I want to know. I imagine spending my life studying mathematics has always been the number one thing my daughter describes to me as cool. My husband knows I'm crazy. I'm here alone. I'm ready for anything. The adventure brings my motivation is to see if it is possible to do a mileage of approximately 250 miles per day and I don't know if it is possible, but I also don't believe in the word "I can't." 2013 seems a long way from where I stand now, but it's the biggest journey I've ever undertaken in a number of different ways, it's kind of a middle-aged thing, although I've been doing this for a while, so there's a sense of that maybe there's a midlife crisis coming, but I've had this midlife crisis for quite some time.

I'm not interested in being one person at work and one person at home. I'm not who I am and there is no downtime for personal brand when I was 16 I had a horrendous accident because I was on my cousin's bike and I went very badly, I broke my teeth and completely destroyed his bike, I spent days in a hospital with a scar on the brain and a bruise on the brain and then I wasn't sure I would go back to so-called normal, some people said no, but 10 days later I left the hospital with severe memory loss and teeth everywhere and there I was.

It took a good four years and to get back on the bike anyway, I went to work on you, you just qualified on the mental health board and then I started working there as a nursing student and what was the first engagement we had, this Lady had become incontinent in a chair and I was around the corner oh look what it was from a newly qualified nurse here go find Paula she is a student she is a general student she dealt with it well in Texas we have a lot people we call rednecks so every redneck has a truck, maybe they even have a shotgun, how's the training going?

The training has been going well, so in all this endurance stuff, it's an opportunity to look at the map and say where I haven't gotten rid of yet in the southern part of I'll go to the UK and start thinking, okay, that's cool , I'll go and fill those gaps and then I'll think well, okay, I'll fight in the north of France and do some things there, half of that is your mental strength because I know. I'll regret starting London Edinburgh in London many times during the three days I'm cycling, but you have to keep going, we usually go to dinner after the ride and then talk about, you know, work life, cycling, complaining about wives, it's hard to say English, but for me it's a bad breakfast.

You have very good motorcycles and good cars, but you drive on the wrong side. So for me this is going to be a crazy ride. I feel good. I just want to start. Wait. for this for half a year this has also happened at this stage, you know, I have my wife and my baby in front of me, good night, oh, goodbye, oh God, the first part has been absolutely hectic, we covered the miles to a fierce rhythm. pace and then continue to cover the miles at a ferocious pace once we leave the first checkpoint and frankly we're getting too fast, I think I'll pay a high price for that a little further down. line I have to admit that cycling saved my life because in 2008 I was cycling I felt like a pain in my chest but I went to the doctor and I told the doctor that's what happened to me and he tells me that you shouldn't even be able to walk , come from the parking lot to the inside of the hospital, he said, I don't know how you did it, what I said is do or die, I would rather die on a bike and just do nothing, so I had quadruple bypass heart surgery . it says um 1400

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and then there's another one that says good luck steve our brother in law died from a brain tumor in February and then you decided it would be a good idea and it's a good idea to raise money for the hospice that looked after him so if you have A touching £3,000, isn't it?

Yes, but it put a lot of pressure on it, don't let them down, there's still the ever-present kind of thing that you know isn't half done yet. and as you know, I have another day to get halfway there. I was going to travel with Yoshi but I lost him in a rush stage. I thought she was traveling with me, but when I looked around she was gone, so I decided to continue. Hello Stefan, how are you? Okay, yes, I will be quite surprised, but I believe that he will bring success for me during this journey, which will end in three days.

I'll go from London to Edinburgh and then back one. checkpoint I think it's 750k or something and then I'm also tired enough to be able to sleep three hours you don't need to wait for us keep going I'm almost there so it's okay time wise it seems to be on the winner at the moment but like I said, it's been easy, it's been favorable and I know anything can happen, but I think after the next check, up and down, threat, okay, right, I have this worry because I'm constantly trying to find the next thing. and the longer and the harder it is, I'll never really be satisfied with the last thing I do, there will always be something more because I told my partner joy, I have to catch her with someone because she likes the idea of ​​this because men disappear for a lot of time and you have a day with your friends, don't you?

You and her sister just bought her an option, so we have weekends planned, so she needs a man to do everything. That seems so everyone can beg him to leave and we spend a weekend in an option. This has been a bit of a bleak stretch from the last stretch to here. Unfortunately, I got a little sick along the way, so I ended up having to stop and be. I'm sick with the side of the bike, how the hell am I going to wrap my head around the fact that my average speed has decreased massively? Am I going to make it?

So this will clearly be my test on this trip. Mostly I'm just thinking about why I'm doing it and I'll be done. That goes from there. In fact, many times I tried to distract myself at some points and I was singing Minogue songs, that's how bad it got no, no, no, no, no, that. one I couldn't leave for a long time because the loud car company was snoring and then just people making strange noises, yeah it's horrible, they're going to Scotland so yeah, well I have to do it once I leave, there's pretty much no turning back, but It's starting to get a little bit dark, but hope

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y we'll make reasonable progress and yeah, we'll cross into Scotland and then we'll call it yeah.

I guess we'll see what happens once it starts getting dark. I'll try not to fall asleep on the bike, I didn't realize the implications of what I was signing up for, I think that's the number one thing, so I signed up for Christmas and I'd been on the bike for six months, six months and I thought, "oh, that sounds like a good trip." I'll do that, I'll let the momentum go, I'll commit to other people, so I'll take it from myself, it's like a commitment that I've given to others, because if it's just me and I just sign up and move on. what to do now you probably know so I'll be in Scotland now ok yeah that's good the first 200km was pretty easy pretty flat and then it started to get a bit hilly like at 250 it was a bit of a steep climb and then after 450, oh God.

God, then the real race started, now I just want to finish, not first, I want to get to Edinburgh because that's a milestone and then get back as quickly as possible, it depends on which side you start. Chris foams, tell me when everything closed. I see you and you're on these unlit roads and it's the kind of flickering headlights of the other people you're with, whatever the weird pinky red color that lights up in the distance when you're, especially when you're really sleepy running for three hours. sleep I think I'm going to stay with the light as long as possible it has to be a little it's not for me half the way now that I'm here the food is very good I'm in Edinburgh as if I've done half the way It's like feeling good and looking forward to returning to the place where I just came from.

I had never been to Scotland before. These people talk funny. I can't say much and they can't understand. Me neither, where is Yoshi? I just got the message from him and he retired. He had left the area. He's in Brampton. Now the story of my life I'm getting old. My body doesn't follow my brain. I hope, friend. And maybe tomorrow I will return to London. Do you feel grateful to have done that training with yourself? Yes, yes, otherwise I wouldn't be here. I mean, I probably would have given up on him sooner, so it's a shame he gave up.

There is a little. It's a kind of conflict where you really want to enjoy it and in a way it's something you've been looking forward to, but at the same time there's a feeling of I want to do it, I'm not doing it. I really understand the size of the challenge when I start doing it, I try not to think that it's only half the battle, it's hard work when you know that every kind of turn of the pedal is actually hurting the excitement, the build-up and the bankroll a little bit. At first you know everyone's excited out loud and it was just a real feeling of anticipation and then it's just here and it's like you know one by one they fell asleep and you just went there alone you know that's it, oh, it's over, I'm going to put these things away now, no, we don't eat bits and pieces of things in Texas, we eat a lot, but around here they do a little of this and a little of that, I think.

The songs are so ridiculous that it plays when I get close to the controller, like you know I'm going to go by the numbers, like when there's 9k left, so nine is pretty good and when it gets to the weight, it's pretty good and you know seven or close to heaven, you know, I mean, I'm very good at uh, I enjoy my own company, as they say, which I think definitely helps if you're sitting on a bike for many hours a day, a rich inner world is a joy. being owned as a rap artist once said there's a lot of people here that are here to, you know, get together with friends and do something together, that's not really the reason I'm here, if I'm doing it for the right reasons in other people's minds.

I don't really care, it's just a piece, okay, look, it's a sour cake, finish this, drink some water, try to find some bananas and then where do you say it's flat? Well, are you sick? It's not flat here, it's not flying at all I could have stayed on hills and hills on hills and hills and hills lady, I could have stayed home and been talked to like that right now, I'm kinda glad I got the photo of the singer very early, around four o'clock. In the morning I hope to stay alive this is how I manage so far staying alive on this side of the road, not the other side is part of life if you don't take risks and you don't take risks you will never be successful and you won't I don't enjoy the things that happen to you they like.

I thought he would come around nine, but now after 11, something may happen. I'm worried we're behind. We were supposed to be in Pocklington if we were going to do 400km each. 24 hours, that doesn't seem likely and most people have been telling us that's completely unrealistic. There's a chance we can make up some time on some of the fast sections and flatter sections, but it's unlikely we'll ever get there. close to schedule thank you um he sent me a photo of him and mana's beautiful house so he seemed happy to create are you proud of it? Yes, I promise, yes, he is perfect now that you are 40 or 50, you don't know anyone.

I really come to congratulate you, you know you're not a child anymore, so it's nice, it's a beautiful, beautiful day right now, the sun has just opened and like the hills to my left, they're like mosaic quotes, all different . colors to different fields it's just great I have a nice descent aheadthere are beautiful hills going up today nothing too steep so far it's nice to be outside appreciating this beautiful landscape just playing with the thoughts in my head having random chats with people and passing by oh it's all good it's on days like this I feel like a cycle, a cycle forever, I almost did it last night, I slept a little poorly last night, about an hour around the corner.

I turned around three times just to figure out how to get off. It's just a sign that I'm tired because I thought I saw you greeting me when I came in. So how is Scotland? Oh, rainy, rainy, rainy and hilly, oh my goodness, and it's cold. it was 7.7 degrees this morning oh stronger than you expected yes yes it took a lot longer than expected a lot more my sense of what time it is doesn't work what day or whatever it all floats together like I don't know if you're enjoying it Not now , no, it is difficult, very difficult, somewhere like this, no, no, it cannot happen, it is always good with very short stainless steel like 60 67, because if it is 8485 it is not, however, did you see that What we think is the last one and a Japanese does it?

You see, he never will this morning. I was two hours late to closing time on a quick check today and on a second check, I mean I'm about 1 hour and 15 minutes late, but I'm not worried. because considering the time left and the distance, I'm on the right track, so now it's 4-10 and I need to head out into the dark and the cold, uh, horrible, horrible night, and see how far I can go. Tonight wasn't so good last night. like huge, terrible pains in my legs and I thought, oh, it's gone this morning, I feel great, it lasted about 15 or 20 minutes and the pain came back.

I had to keep going until I got to Olston, I guess that's it. about 30 miles and I brought some ibuprofen and I'm taking ibuprofen right now, which works, but as far as old legs go, they're not in the best shape of their lives. I saw fewer and fewer cyclists out there. and when you look at the numbers, they're usually I'm tired but not exhausted. I think my speed is still very clear and high. Still I am optimistic. I've been thinking I can't do this. I'm not fit enough and you know there's another colleague of mine from Dulich. who is probably in bed right now having finished, but actually that's not really important, the fact is that he's already done and I think I can do it too.

This has been an incredible adventure and I have met people, experienced things and found things within that I didn't know about. I know it was there. I have written a thousand kilometers that I had never done before. I traveled to Scotland in 48 hours. I have traveled to Edinburgh. There are so many positives that I would be disappointed, but it wouldn't be the end of my life. Yes, it would be the icing on the cake and that's why I leave in the middle of the night to go riding in the countryside and get somewhere else on time.

I guess the point is, obviously, if you're doing some sort of endurance test that something like this is, there's going to be times where you're going to have to hold on and this is obviously going out into the darkness and trying to get somewhere closer. to London, maybe this is the moment in the trip is the kind of test of uh you know, perseverance and you absolutely need to try cycling at night. It is a very lonely experience. Not that it's not a lot of fun as far as I'm concerned. I've been talking to a lot of people who love riding in the dark, so I don't know what it is about, but I actually want to say that I'm chasing the time limit right now.

I need to be at the market going up at six. 'clock tomorrow morning, so it takes five hours to get there, it has to happen in the next seven hours, five hours of travel, it has to be overnight, so it is what it is, so it's quite interesting to be located in a position where you can Say okay, we can go to bed if you want or take a look inside and see if you can find something to get out of and it's cold and wet and ended up somewhere else to give you a little more time and That's something I've really enjoyed. a lot of good, it will usually point you in the right direction, which will keep you going, assuming I keep going through this next stage, I don't know, the ability to endure the misery, endure the misery, just keep going and think this is really horrible but I just don't have a choice um I did it I sat there because well I was eating but I sat and thought for a long time and I thought I really can't so it's not really an option yeah I want Say they are closing and it gets less lively but there is no waiting time, there are plenty of beds you can sleep in and the places are empty so I don't have to waste time waiting. for food, bath, shower or bed after all, so yes, still on the truck, I think we are now in the market classification and I come from pocklington and it's 80 kilometers.

I had some hallucinations, hallucinations, about sheep walking down the road turned around. Turns out it was white lines and stuff and bushes moving and I couldn't keep my eyes open, but we made it here. I had an upset stomach, which is not good at all. I got off my bike in Scotland, which is not good at all. My shoulder hurts. um and then you know, just being on a bike for a long time things start to hurt, I don't know why someone does this, you know, and people who do this every four years it's like what is it, are you going to do it again? to do?

I just hope my stomach problems recover. I've really been in a lot of fields like that. There are between eight and 12 of us stretched out in a fairly long line and you know anyone could have fallen if they were tired. Your balance is very high. It's easy to lose it and be in nature. Is it work at this time of the morning? No, it's not a good thing, but that's probably what this event is about about people pushing themselves to do things they normally wouldn't do. I'm looking forward to it. We slept about two hours and then we started again, so when we were training for this there was this old guy who was old shaft and I was in a cafe and he told me don't go crazy on the first date because I regret it, so in About an hour we went crazy on the first day and I've regretted it ever since.

What did you mother said? I will never ride a bike again. You know, we'll never go back again. He's done this, but it's kind of better than after having four of them sitting there riding bikes again, it's funny before, once he had pre-check, he walked into a pharmacy and the girl just looks at the blocks and it must have made him said something to the guy. At the counter, she got the counter screen. There are no kids ready for London, they are all on the bike. The funniest thing was he said: Do you have any moisturizer? and she said to your face and he said let's say yes, so that time on a single speed bike, keep going, yeah, it feels great, I mean, you went really fast, you know, at first I'm not sure , but it was reasonably fast, yes, there are still people who are miles and miles away, yes, and yesterday at lunchtime I was sitting here. having a nice sandwich and food and stuff, yeah I know, I don't know how they're doing it, to be honest I'm brutally, absolutely broke, that was the hardest stage, probably the hardest so far, that headwind It should be 20 to 25 miles per hour. hour for 80 kilometers straight through the fence with nothing to protect you but the old tree, so it's just relentless, I mean, I feel, I mean, you can never tell how you feel two hours later on the road, um, I feel I'm pretty calm.

Recharged in terms of energy levels and worries like that, it's very hot, but it's going to cool down and I'm pretty sure you know the time limits and the search, and I just saw my parents too and they're going to meet with me. In the end, I try to be optimistic, as you know, but my feet hurt, my landing gear is ruined. My hands are numb and I don't remember my own name. We should be done, but you know it's probably going to be another night cycle again, unfortunately. Which is something I really didn't want to do, all bets are off, but I have to do it.

I'm going to get on my bike. I'm going to point to the next control and beyond that I won't understand you. As good as the feeling of crossing the finish line of this type of endurance race is, you can't, you can't describe it. A feeling this good isn't about the trip being over, it's about a memory and what you take. far from here I will stay with you forever people touched my life and that never changed the last 200k were the worst I think brutal really hilly and hot it was up down up down up down and an immediate concern for the people who are at the end of the group because if they have made the mistake that we made then they could be in trouble.

I've told all these people that I'm doing this right and unless you have a really good reason to give up, like you broke your arm or something, it's a little pathetic to just say that I got a little tired so I stopped time. of control. I worry about it like there are really tough times where I'm on the verge of giving up I'm not I'm not sure how resilient I am as a person in your mind if you mentally say I'm okay now I'm going to give up then very You can quickly let that happen, so do three, okay, I thought I'd be here at 7 or 8 o'clock and what's 11?

So those people who were back there close to time are not going to arrive. Oh God, I would be so mad if it hadn't come. Closing time today will be 2:55, so yeah, about 25 minutes or so. um, he's the time left. Congratulations, you have learned this. Thank you so much. There you go, if you can sleep here, maybe it's better to sleep outside, he's, uh, oh, congratulations, there you go, it's you.