#35 | Mark Beaumont | Lessons from cycling around the world, twice.
The Modern Mind
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Circumnavigation Versus Around the World
When i graduated from glasgow university, with an economics and politics degree, i didn't sit there and go, i'm going to plough my own furrow. I had this great passion for adventure, but i thought i was going to work in finance. So i thought, hal, if i've only got one chance, let's cycle around the world. And i assumed that the circumnavigation world record by bicycole would be the most professional and the most coveted record in the book. But when i spotted it was more than 200 days quicker than when i first spotted it and so we're talking about a hundred and nearly 200 minutes faster than when i
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