TO BE AN ULTRA-ENDURANCE CYCLIST
Jul 24, 2020
3 minutes
Ultra-endurance cycling is very different from being a regular road racer,” says Mark Beaumont, the 37-year-old record-breaking Scot, whose extraordinary feats have included rides across the Americas, from one end of Africa to the other, and even all around the world.
“The ability to endure is very different to the ability to be a power or a speed athlete,” says Beaumont, whose first global expedition included several bouts of dysentery, a robbery and some hair-raising scares in northern Pakistan. “I'm 6ft 3in and weigh 90kg, so
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