S9 Ep197: Explore | Mark Beaumont's GBDuro diary
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Amazingly this was Mark’s first ever organised race — though GBDuro is not a race in the traditional sense.
Or perhaps it is? As well as being a test of endurance, it is an event that seeks to put cycle racing back in touch with its roots. With four ultra long stages, and with the riders unsupported and self sufficient, it arguably has more in common with the early Tours de France than the modern incarnation.
As well as Mark — who told us all about his round the world record in our first ever episode of Explore — we hear from some of the other competitors.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Explore by the cycling podcast powered by SuperSapiens. |
| 0:16.4 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of Explore by the cycling podcast completes a circle because the first ever episode |
| 0:31.3 | in this series back in 2017 was an interview with Mark Bowman. |
| 0:36.0 | It was on the subject of his record breaking ride around the world when he rode 18,000 miles |
| 0:40.8 | or 29,000 kilometers in just 79 days. |
| 0:44.2 | His life has been full of such exploits before and since, but more recently he took on a |
| 0:49.6 | new challenge. |
| 0:50.6 | Almost unbelievably, it was his first organised race, the GB Duro, which takes competitors |
| 0:56.5 | the length of Britain from lands into general grotesque by track, gravel and roads. |
| 1:02.3 | Well let's hear what GB Duro says about itself. |
| 1:06.0 | Its ethos is that professional cycling has lost its way. |
| 1:09.2 | In July 2019, Tour de France riders battled with extreme weather, temperatures exceeded |
| 1:13.8 | 40 degrees Celsius on stage 16. |
| 1:16.5 | That was followed by Freak Hailstones and infamous stage stopping landslide on stage 19. |
| 1:21.6 | The race was won by a team bank rolled by a petrochemical giant. |
| 1:24.7 | Meanwhile, in January 2020, bushfires raged throughout Australia as riders were trying |
| 1:29.9 | to kick off the Tour de Nunder, another race with an eye-watering carbon footprint sponsored |
| 1:35.0 | by an oil and gas major and an airline. |
| 1:38.1 | Pro cycling is not just an innocent bystander, caught in the crossfire of climate change. |
| 1:43.1 | It's an active participant driving us off a cliff. |
| 1:46.3 | And this time cycling got unlost. |
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