Continental headwind

[wafflycat]

Article in today's Guardian

See

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1469393,00.html

or

http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5E2214FA

Australia has a nasty headwind ;-)


Cheers, helen s

 

[Mike K Smith]

wafflycat wrote:
> Article in today's Guardian
>
> See
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1469393,00.html
The article says "Mr White hopes he has won a place in the Guinness
book of records for completing the 18,000-mile ride in the shortest
time."

He can hope, but I remember reading about Nick Sanders cycling round the
world in 80 ndays some years ago.

In fact Nick has a homepage which mentions two round the world trips, he
took 138 days in 1981, and 79 days in 1985.

http://www.nicksanders.com/about.htm

 

[Colin Blackburn]

wafflycat wrote:
> Article in today's Guardian
>
> See
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1469393,00.html

The BBC also covers this, at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4478347.stm

wherein Cliff Richard is quoted as saying:

"I think it's fantastic that a young person has given up that much of
their life, 10 months, to cycle around the planet."

Why does he see this part of his life as some how having been given up
(other than that it is now the past.)

Colin