Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason.

Today we're throwing it back to a conversation with Mark Beaumont, who has biked around the world twice,

and we're going to talk about that adventure.

And the reason I wanted to bring this up is I just saw that Lale Wilcox a legendary

cyclist is setting a record or attempting to set a record for a similar ride around the world

ride 18,000 miles for the women's record and I was like oh wow that's I haven't heard anyone

trying to attempt this since talking to Mark so I just wanted to revisit this episode. If Will gets it, I mean, even if she does it, I'd love to have her on the show just to talk about her experiences and adventures. And she's a legend. And we've had her scheduled before. It didn't work out timing-wise. And then we just haven't followed up. So I'll see if i can get her back on after this experience but she's going to be gone presumably a hundred days so we'll I mean, I've got buddies who are Olympians and have done all these, you know, buddies who have climbed Everest. And it's funny. I mean, I've got buddies who are Olympians and I've done all these,

you know, buddies who have climbed Everest. And there's something about if you do something which is

so easy to remember, like it's got that ring about it, like nothing else really. And there's worse

things to be known for at the end of the day. If all you're going to be known for is cycling around

the world, I can live with that. No, you're right. I think it's the ability to share it. If you don't, this is a tangent, but Alex Honnold, who climbed L-Cap, El Capiton and Yosemite a few years ago, free soloed it. That was very close to the same time as another athlete Tommy Caldwell, who did the most difficult

route on the same rock, and it took, you know, 19 days longer. You know, Alex Honnold's climb was two hours.

Don Wall. The Don Wall, exactly. Both amazing films. Yeah, exactly. Both amazing films just happened to

come out at the same time. We were able to get Tommy on the show. And by all accounts, Tommy's achievement was more impressive in the sense of the difficulty,

the sheer planning.

I mean, they both were just off the charts.

But after, you know, going into depth about both of them, Tommy's, I was like, man,

that is an incredible story.

But it's harder to tell and it's

harder to remember. And I think that's why the skyrocketing popularity of what Alex did was

because the sheer, how easily it was to communicate, I climbed this rock, this mountain with no

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