Cycling Around the World - Record Attempt
In 2012 I was attempting to break the world record for cycling around the world. I left London on the 18th February 2012 and 3 weeks in I was way ahead of schedule averaging nearly 180 miles per day. My dreams were then shattered in America when a driver ran me over doing 50 miles per hour. I suffered severe whip lash, concussion, torn ligaments and a compression fracture to my spine. This ruined my dream of the world record but I still wanted to continue in order to follow my dream and raise money for a charity called Solar Aid. My average speed dropped down to 140 miles per day and it became a race to get back to London in time for the Olympics. I arrived back in London with a week to spare having covered 16,000 miles, 12,000 of them with a fractured spine.
Cycling the Earth
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Sean Conway was stuck in a life dead end of his own making when he heard about a round the world cycling race. He was immediately inspired – but it was a huge undertaking and he’d hardly been on a bike in years. Could he really cycle all the way round the world, solo and unsupported?
Six months later, after completing a punishing training schedule and packing up everything he owned into boxes, Sean was in Greenwich Park on the start line of the adventure of a lifetime. Soon he was way ahead of schedule, averaging 180 miles per day, and on course to break the round the world cycling record. But then disaster struck, and Sean was forced to confront the possibility that he may not be able to complete the race...
In the course of his 16,000-mile journey, Sean travelled the famous pan-American highway across the Atacama Desert, outran tornados, relied on fellow travellers to ferry water across the Australian outback, and inadvertently joined a cycle club in Mumbai. He learnt things about himself he didn’t know and rediscovered a spirit of adventure that changed everything. This is a book about an amazing and sometimes incredibly difficult journey, but it’s also a book about never giving up when there’s an opportunity to follow your dreams.
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