Mark Beaumont

Yeah, not many people have heard of him when I mention his name, but I've seen him talk as well.

And Mark Beaumont, the round-the-world endurance cyclist, he's as strong as an ox.

I've done some bits of stuff with Mark.

You know, the late, great Nims Perner, who's just passed climbing the mountain.

Bradley Wiggins, you know, all the stuff that he did in Chris Froome.

I've got sponsorship money that's coming in and people expect, you know, a performance, if you like.

So I'm going to do it no matter what.

My physio, Mark Fletcher, the physio mate who always helps me out for Candlelighters events, he's like, his daughter was with Candlelighters, who's down there working with him and he's always like, right, what are you doing now? Yeah.

that.

Can I add a notable mention into 2010 when Mark Beaumont won?

You're a big fan of that.

I still do wonder how he won on that GT that day.

And he is, I think, the most bracing voice on this entire subject we've had in the studio.

Mark Beaumont cycled around the world in 78 days.

To put that in some kind of context, he'd already broken the record once in 2008, taking 194 days and beating the previous mark by more than two months.

People said it would never be broken.