when I was on the road, everything was about making the bike go faster.

And I was, I had a bit of peace and I got home and I was reading Harriet, my daughter,

a bedtime story.

And I finished the story.

And I said, no, night Harriet gave her a kiss.

And I said something like, is it good having daddy home? I don't know why I said it.

And she looked at me straight in the eyes and she said, yes, daddy, but to the Adventure Sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

This episode's really exciting because Mark has been personally a huge inspiration to me.

He is just a legend, just a total legend in the world

of cycling, the world of endurance and adventure sports, and just, you know, your general adventurer as

well. He's done some incredible things, including what we're talking about today, two circumnavigations

of the globe on bicycle, which is just mind-boggling.

And you're thinking, if you're thinking to yourself, you know, how do you bike around the world

because there's oceans? Don't forget about those. Well, that's, you know, that's a great point.

But Guinness World Record put out this kind of parameters for around the world cycling, which basically says you can't

deviate too far from where you start as far as, you know, if you go around the equator, you got to

kind of stay within five to ten degrees north and south. And then also it has to have a minimum

number of miles that you cycle, which is 18,000.

And so Mark has done that faster than anybody, which was just under 80 days, 79 days.

The first time he did it, it was pretty much twice that.

And the second time, he shaved quite a bit off of it.

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