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#35 | Mark Beaumont | Lessons from cycling around the world, twice.

The Modern Mind

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Growing Up in Scotland

I was always destined to be an ultra endurance athlete. I grew up on a small farm with my two sisters, so my social circle and awareness of sport was very, very limited until the age of 12. My reality was riding ponies, then horses, that was my main sport, really, till i was about 15. And skiing, you know, i was a season ticket holder at glenshee, which was just up the road, until i was 16,. You wouldn't bother doing that any more, sadly, with the snow cover we've got. It was all out there solo. So when i was thrown into high school school for the very first time, aged a 12,

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