Mark Beaumont's Diary
Despite adding about 2kg to his overall kit weight, Mark carried a laptop, GPS tracker, three cameras and a voice recorder to help him document his journey.
He sent us text messages and phoned from the road and whenever he passed through civilisation, he popped into internet caf茅s to email pictures and videos.
2am, again...
Mark Beaumont, Thursday, 09 August 2007.
Hello, hello, hello... welcome to my adventure! Everyone should have an adventure in life and this is my current one! My name is Mark Beaumont and I fully intend to cycle 18,000 miles around the world and set a new Guinness World Record.
Mark
I would love to set the scene with a picture of serenity and stories of choreographed perfection in last minute preparations. Alas, it is, yet again 2am and I am looking forwards to 4 hour shut eye before another day of organised chaos!
Earlier this year, getting this expedition started felt like trying to jump up a downwards-escalator with my feet tied together, however, somewhere down the line everything subtly picked up momentum. With one week left, I am now left with a slightly helpless feeling of being swept along on a roller coaster of activity which is going to deposit me, whether ready or not, without much warning or time to reflect, at the start line of my 210 day cycle race around world.
Mark
Over the next seven months I hope you will join my expedition online to follow the highs and lows of the ultimate solo endurance cycle race. Sounds pretty epic in those scary terms... I prefer to think of it as simply cycling about 100ish miles a day for 200ish days! Does that sound easier? Ahem... well maybe if I said it was as easy as cycling from Edinburgh to Glasgow and back again every day for 7 months... better? I guess that there is no way of making this sound like a reasonable proposition! Regardless, this is my reality and with stage 1 (planning and training) nearly over, I can't wait to start stage 2 (the cycle).
More intro and background to follow soon but for now I msujd jd sn zzz zz z...
Comments
Go Mark! You are an inspiration to everyone. You prove to the rest what you can achieve if you put your mind to it.posted by Peter Kelly from N. Ireland
