okay we're at land's end and we're gonna cycle um up to donna groats as a relay as
four and try and do it in the fastest time to break guinness world book of records
oh book say that again five o'clock in the morning land's end welcome to the behind the scenes of the
international's world record attempt are we gonna we'll try and pull the story together as narrators
while they do the hard work cycling and we'll be in the in the early's tour bus at least a nice
warm cozy tour bus cheers nelly have we got our little plasters on our cheeks while we're in there
this is crazy how's she doing wow well hope she's doing okay uh we'll find out
it's wet it's been pouring the whole time but actually that's not too bad right now it's okay
it's not too bad it's been a lot worse i'm glad i'm driving yeah yeah yeah with the umbrella
not working george how would you rather look
at that why are you wearing usually indoors still this isn't my like this is a jelly the girls gave
to me because i was not prepared for the rain i don't know how that helps we haven't really
explained to the viewers george what exactly is going on this is a world record relay land zen
johna groats attempt four internationals and they are taking turns to ride in the rain currently
i think it's actually stopped raining i think it matters a lot of road spray yeah run me through
the changes that they're making so they're starting off with an hour each or how is it
working so we basically split the whole first sector to which is to exeter yeah basically
evenly into quarters okay and so it's a bit more than hours for an hour and 20 minutes each that
first bit and then they're moving to longer stints like two hours each after this until we get within
touching distance to finish and then we're going shorter again jess's average pace was 34 kph last
shift really good really quick these are fast roads the route they've chosen is the fastest
most direct route from land's end to joining garage which means a lot of air roads we've got
uh vehicles to protect them from behind we've got a giant tour bus which is uh for sleeping in
which nelly uses it's a bit sticky that's where craig david sits on that one but yeah
they're going to be riding as fast as they can and switching sharing the load yeah uh this
plan is pretty fluid we're going to have to see how they feel later on and hopefully everything
like this because anything can change right wind can get up and start making things harder riders
have an issue we've had one puncher yeah but we can deal with that quickly so yeah the plan
is there's been a lot of planning going into it but we've also built a lot of fluidity in
case we need to amend right now we're sat in a lovely lay-by so nice beautiful safe lay-by and
waiting for rider three should we go find her yeah come on then hey how was that um good fun
i can't be like jessica you chose this you chose me she chose this it looked really smooth and
really strong oh thank you i can't do it i can't think i was like the guys are gonna wonder what
i'm doing my gear changing because i can't just be like look no right do you know where i put this
uh i thought we're just there is that good yeah i forgot my heart rate once here one fourteen
smashes in your case let's go with the coach right here in here in this side door chocolate milk time
the downhills are fun i just like trying as fast as you can yeah they're like free down
here i'm trying to get small yeah um but my arms are getting tired i like these properly badass
the follow vehicle is amazing like nice toots yeah yeah friendly cheeks yeah about completely safe
yeah and you can just take the rope so i'm just like this is [ __ ] i'll go over there
which is nice yeah oh we haven't done such a good job of bringing with jules has a puncher danny's
fixing it and she has amy's whirling good job yeah but she's got amy's world and she's cracking on
hey come on sorry yeah good thank you so red i love a road so i'm gonna ride then what happened
thank you so much mate i got a little puncher but danny was there to save the day hey that's
that included a puncher hey that's bangers thanks well i mean danny was there to save the day so i
can only take so much credit oh there's a there's a bar and there's something dressed in pink i saw
in an hour and 11 including a puncher so
34k average same as yes bang it you were smashing it all right
brown
it's dried up a bit i think the sun's coming out lou's going out for her stint it's gonna be a
beautiful day fingers crossed that's the last of the rain that these guys got to deal with
well done well done you're safe out of the way oh my god what a wobble down the first hill and
i was still cold and then it like really shook me up every time like a lorry came past i was like
oh then i was okay and now i'm here so the internationals originated to raise awareness
that there wasn't a woman's tour since 1989 um and also there's a men's tour but not women's
so a couple of women um applied to good ride with the donald delas
bellows the french team that ride it for the last six years and a couple of people didn't get into
the team because i think it was quite uh popular and they all came together so ended up being 10
women from around the globe so we had people from australia us netherlands who all came together
in 2019 to ride toward france one day ahead of the men to show that women can do it and that there
should be a tour for the women and since then covid has uh sort of scuffled our plans and we've
had to come up with plan b so last year we did the distance of the tour as a relay around the world
and a couple of us in uk and netherlands in the us and australia did everest attempt and this
year we're here doing some guinness world record not guinness book of records written in a day
yeah i think oh there you go i think we've hit that one even though it has just recently
announced that the women will have a tour from next year it's first year only eight days
um and so that's a great start for us to make but you know ultimately we want to again still raise
awareness that now that we have a turf with a woman we need to support them it's great that
they're having the coverage that they deserve and hopefully this will just you know build from
here but i think it's important that we still keep doing and campaigning for what we're doing and to
keep people interested in women's cycling and and to keep showing that women's cycling is exciting
the women are really strong we can do exactly what the men can do and it is a different sport
but we can do the same things and we just need to be given the same platform it's raining again
i actually looked so bad i like judged a bullet it was actually quite it
was like one moment the sun was coming through i was like when i finished it
i got a picture of just her butt look at that ah my camera died
so i'm basically in the car with rob here because we've got shuttle riders
in between uh this is francis from the future here talking from my editing station the audio
of this clip is completely messed up i don't know what was going on the microphone wasn't plugged in
properly or something unreliable equipment basically i was explaining how the massive
tour bus that we have is quite big and doesn't always fit through the cities so we're actually
having to shuttle riders in between the tour bus and their starting location george has done some
planning and rob is following his instructions down to a tee so we've managed to get the riders
exactly where they need to be every single time so far winning back to the uh scheduled
programming where my microphone started to work again perfectly fine of course what are you
it listening
thanks man hiya
and then nearly tried to get into the big-ass
wolverhamptons the first hour was horrible like after you guys went and i had a horrible half
hour in my brain just like no is that again like light up chat i mean nothing good right
but then i think the wind turned i don't know do you know when you're not sure
what the wind is but i felt a lot better the last 45 minutes so i'm going to say tailwind
i thought of a cheat so on the giro van like massive like like
push forward air blowers so when it's behind us it's just giving us a tailwind so we need to go
and find some fans from the shop somewhere no one would know your head hits the ceiling
there's my head i am like i'm perfectly wedged in floor to ceiling oh yeah i'm like a pillar
i'm holding up the coach to conclude today's video this attempt is being split into two videos
and i wanted to end this quickly by going over the goals of the internationals what day is it today
i have no idea basically guinness from guinness world records have given them a target of 50
hours to do the challenge they are massively ahead of schedule so i think they're aiming for
40 is that what they were saying that's what they're saying that's very quick my money was
on them doing it in 47. they're all riding way above the average speeds that they need to be uh
obviously the changeovers are getting a little bit slower everyone's getting a bit tired we're
not even halfway yet and this is our first real period of dark as well exactly it's going to come
down a bit obviously when you're riding at night everything just gets a bit slower because your
body wants to be asleep so yeah average speeds and your eyes can't see what do we say in the video
you