RIDING AROUND THE WORLD IN 124 DAYS

                                                                                                                                                        TIME: 7.30PM

DATE: TUE DEC 10TH 2019

PLACE: PAVILION ARTS CENTRE, BUXTON OPERA HOUSE, BUXTON

COST: £17.50 / £12.50 CONCESSIONS. TICKETS.

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The clock started at 6am on 16th June 2018 when Jenny rode out from Berlin, not stopping until she had cycled 18,000 miles across four continents. She traveled east through 16 countries - Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, Portugal, Spain and France - took four flights, one boat and consumed over 660,000 calories!

By riding for 16 hours and averaging 180 miles a day, Jenny beat the current record by 14 days. 

This was a self-supported ride, so Jenny's rules were:

- I'll do it all myself, under my own power - no drafting

- I'll carry all my own gear 

- I won't accept any outside support (deliveries only to public addresses or open homes, no vehicles of any kind meeting me along the way to provide supplies or assistance).

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Emily Chappell

Emily Chappell is an author, adventurer and advocate, known for her long-distance bicycle journeys and the words with which she shares them. Her first book, What Goes Around, was described by the Guardian as “a lovely lyric poem to the city,” and told the story of her years as a London cycle courier – the hidden corners of the city, the honest agony of cold toes and tired legs, the blissful moments when bike and body and city fall into harmony, and the endless encounters with London’s rich and ever-changing cast of characters.

 

Her second book, the newly published Where There’s A Will, follows Chappell’s journey into the curious world of long-distance self-supported bike races, and gives a unique insight into how it feels to race across a continent: cycling through both sunrise and sunset, sleeping only for snatched minutes in fields and forests, navigating through mountain ranges and along remote unpaved roads, and searching out food along the way.

 

Chappell captures the loneliness and unexpected camaraderie of long-distance racing, and intricately describes the moments of joy, despair, confidence and self-doubt that her mind cycles through as she pushes her body to the limit.

 

An engaging and humorous speaker, Chappell will tell the improbable story of how she ended up winning the 4,000km Transcontinental race across Europe, read aloud from Where There’s A Will, and answer questions about every aspect of cycling and writing books.