'It's a lot of pedalling mate': cyclist Lachlan Morton making record pace in 14,200km journey around Australia

09/16/2024 10:31 PM

The professional rider says the demands of the outback odyssey are 'wildly different' from racing as he eyes fastest circumnavigation

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"It's not a holiday," says Lachlan Morton, an Australian professional cyclist more than one-third of his way through an epic quest to cycle around Australia.

More than a century ago, in June 1899, Arthur Richardson left Perth to ride the circumference of the Australian continent. He returned 245 days later. Richardson's epic journey was part of a movement of long-distance cycling, known as "the Overlanders", which flourished at the turn of the century.