Tadhg Talks to Daragh Conin

dara thank you very much for joining me how are you

not too bad now yeah thanks a million for having me on so

we'll we'll go back to 2025 you you took on this challenge for charity you cycled the length of africa briefly tell me about that one

Yeah, so last year now, I think I became the youngest and fastest Irish person to cycle length of Africa.

But that one wasn't for charity now.

That one was just for the crack.

There was nothing to it in terms of charity or anything.

I went out there in hopes of...

I thought a year on a bike would give me a good opportunity to figure out

what the

crack was and where I wanted to go in life and all that.

So there was no charity involved.

None of the social media or anything was the goal.

It was just...

I thought a year on a bike in Africa would give me a good opportunity to think about where I was going in life and figure some stuff out.

So,

yeah,

I flew out to Africa.

It was the dream.

Like some of these countries I had never even heard of.

Like I was a big follower, a huge follower of Russ Cook, the harness geezer.

He ran the length of Africa.

So I was following him religiously there while I was living in Australia and after.

So he kind of inspired my... my dream of Africa, and then I wasn't going to go running it, so I was like, you know what, I'll buy a bike and go cycling it, go cycle the length of Africa then, and no cycling experience, no nothing, no, like, long-distance cycling experience, no nothing, and never slept in a tent or anything, and then, yeah, next thing I knew, I got the bike, just got a €500 bike from the bike shed here in Cork City, and a €50 tent off Amazon, got a few bits of gear together, and I think it was the 6th of January 2025, I flew from Dublin to Marrakesh in Morocco and started my journey cycling the length of Africa and spent 204 days cycling from Marrakesh in Morocco down the west coast of Africa.

I think it was 19 countries, 13,500 kilometres.