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2020
Lockdown adventures. Running every street of Edinburgh with 6 year old daughter (500 miles) and Scotland gravel documentaries with Jenny Graham. GCN+ documentaries -
2019Chile. The longest descent.
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2019Queen’s New Years honours - British Empire Medal for services to sport and charity
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20181903, the origins of the Tour de France. GCN+ documentary.
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2018/19The hour record by penny farthing. Outdoor record at Herne Hill, then Guinness World Record at the Derby indoor velodrome. Both were then bettered by Chris Opie. GCN+ documentary.
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2017Around the World in 80 Days. 18,000 miles in 78 days 14 hours and 40 minutes. GCN+ documentary and book.
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2017Around Britain 3000 mile clockwise around the coastline.
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2015Africa Solo. Guinness World Record for the fastest cycle from Cairo to Cape Town. 10,000 km in 41 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes, breaking the previous record of 59 days. GCN+ documentary and book.
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2013-14Presenter for the Queen’s Baton Relay, travelling to 78 Nations and Territories in the build up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
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2012Crew-member on ‘Atlantic Odyssey,’ an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for rowing the mid-Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados. Capsized after 28 days, 500 miles from the finish and rescued 14 hours later.
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2011Rowing the Arctic (BBC documentary). Crew and film-maker, rowing to the 1996 location of the North Magnetic pole in the Nunavut territory of Canada, further north than anyone has rowed before, 800 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Expedition lead by fellow Scot, Jock Wishart.
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2009/10The Man who Cycled the Americas, 13,080 mile cycle over nine months from Anchorage, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentine, climbing Denali and Acongagua on route, the highest peaks in north and South America. BBC series and book.
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2007/8The Man who Cycled the World, Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation by bicycle, 18,296 miles in 194 days and 17 hours. BBC series and book.
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2002-2006The University of Glasgow – MA (Hons) Economics & Politics
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2000/21Ski instructor in Scotland and Italy
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1998John O’Groat’s to Land’s End solo and supported by parents (aged 15)
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1994-2000The High School of Dundee
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1993Across Scotland cycle at the age of 12
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Until 1994Home schooled in Perthshire, Scotland
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