Cycling 38,000 Miles Around the World with Jacob Lemanski

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jacob Lemanski is a long distance cyclist who embarked on a global journey in 2013 with no set destination, just a desire to see how far his legs could take him. Over two and a half years, he pedaled more than 38,000 miles across 42 countries, driven by curiosity, endurance, and a love for exploration.

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0:00.0	A lot of our guests have wild ideas with a clear finish line, like reaching the summit of a
0:08.0	mountain or completing an ultramarathon. It's not often that we talk to someone whose goal is more
0:14.5	nebulous. It's not about a destination or miles, but about pushing themselves physically and
0:20.8	mentally until they can't go
0:22.8	anymore.
0:24.4	Adventureer Jacob Lomansky applied this same concept to his own wild idea, cycling around the
0:30.9	world.
0:34.6	There's lots of ways to know how strong I could be, but for myself, it was to ride a bike as far as I could.
0:42.1	I had this idea that only in getting to a place where I could go no farther, would I know that I had gone as far as I could?
0:48.9	I didn't want a bike and arrive somewhere. I wanted to go until I quit, And that was really important to me. And I had to
0:56.0	dedicate myself fully to realizing that. I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
1:05.3	an REI Co-Op Studios production presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Oat MasterCard.
1:15.0	Jacob Lomansky, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:18.2	You've had a lot of wild ideas.
1:20.2	All of them are around a bicycle.
1:22.5	How did you get involved with cycling?
1:26.5	You know, perhaps my first wild idea was to bicycle across the country
1:31.8	when I was 20 years old. I'd never done anything like that and I actually flew out west and bought a
1:39.1	bike there to do it. And that's when I first fell in love with bike touring.
1:44.6	It was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
1:47.2	Wait, so where did you grow up?
1:48.6	Were you always outdoorsy?
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