Ep. 1096: Jacob Lemanski - Riding a Bicycle Around the World TWICE
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Cycling around the world: Jacob Lemanski's 999-day, 38,000-mile journey – motivations, challenges, lessons in trust and humanity, the beauty of the world, and transitioning to leading bike tours in Colorado.
Jacob Lemanski shares his incredible journey of cycling around the world for 999 days, covering 38,000 miles. He discusses the motivations behind his journey, the challenges he faced, and the profound lessons he learned about trust, humanity, and the beauty of the world. Jacob reflects on the impact of his travels on his life and how he has transitioned into leading bike tours in Colorado after his epic adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | Today I have Jacob Llananski with us. |
| 0:10.7 | And Jacob, several years back, decided to get on a bicycle and see how far he could ride. |
| 0:17.2 | And we'll get into the details of why he did that. |
| 0:21.3 | But the end result was he went around the planet twice. |
| 0:25.3 | He did 38,000 miles in 99 days. |
| 0:29.7 | And we're going to talk about this epic bicycle journey. |
| 0:34.1 | And Jacob, welcome to the program. |
| 0:36.6 | So Jacob, let's start with where you are now, so people kind of have a context. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm in Denver now. |
| 0:44.2 | That bike tour started and then in Colorado. |
| 0:47.0 | This is where I call home. |
| 0:48.0 | Really? |
| 0:48.6 | Okay. |
| 0:49.6 | So this was about 10 years ago, more or less, give or take. |
| 0:59.2 | And I got to know why what was it that said you know I need to get on a bike and just go and go and go and go you know I just had this |
| 1:04.9 | idea it would be a young strong man once in my life and I had to figure out what I could do with that. |
| 1:13.3 | And I had always been pushing myself in different ways. |
| 1:17.0 | Every year on my birthday, I would run my age and miles. |
| 1:20.3 | It'd be the farthest, longest run of my life every year. |
| 1:24.1 | And so I was just kind of used to pushing myself and eventually I decided to really go for it. |
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