Inverness cyclist Jenny Graham will join Mark Beaumont and Hamish Graham in a gruelling cycling challenge for charity next summer.
World-record breaking cyclist Jenny Graham is to take part in gruelling 3500-mile European bike challenge for charity.
Jenny, of Inverness, will join a team, which also includes world-record breaking Scottish cyclist Mark Beaumont, to cycle from the most northern point of Europe in Norway to the most southern tip in Spain for the Race Europe challenge in July.
They aim to raise £100,000 for the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, which funds pioneering research into Motor Neurone Disease and supports families living with the disease, and the Yorkshire Children’s Charity which supports children living with disability and hardship across the region with essential equipment and emergency resources.
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The two Scottish cyclists will join Yorkshire entrepreneur Martin Mansell, chief executive of EnjoyTravel.com and the force behind the Yorkshire Beast charity challenge, plus Hamish Graham, of Yorkshire, who raced across Europe in 2025.
The team will ride from Nordkapp to Tarifa, riding 220 miles a day across seven counties in just over two weeks.
In 2018, Jenny broke the world record for cycling 18,000 miles unsupported around the world in just 124 days and 11 hours last year – knocking three weeks off the previous fastest woman record.
Her route covered four continents and 16 countries, travelling from Germany to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Mongolia and China.
She also pedalled across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, then Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Holland.
She cycled 15 hours a day, including at night, managing an average of 156 miles a day.
She is also the author of Coffee First, Then the World.
She has raced and toured globally, guided countless riders, and presented documentaries with Global Cycling Network in some of the world’s wildest environments.
Mark Beaumont, of Edinburgh, holds the world record for both cycling around the world in less than 80 days and cycling the length of Africa.
Earlier this year, he joined Mr Mansell in a seven-day 1100-mile race from Leeds to Nice to raise £55,000.
July’s Race Europe challenge will see the cyclists facing 24-hour daylight above the Arctic Circle, remote sub-zero temperatures, major Alpine climbs, and the scorching heat of southern Spanish heartlands and mountains in the peak of summer.
Donations can be made at Donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/ride-europe-cycling-the-length-of-europe.
“This is going to be a huge test of resilience, teamwork and mental toughness,” Mr Mansell said.
“To complete the 1100-mile ride from Leeds to Nice in just under seven days was extremely difficult and unlike anything I’d ever done before but I wanted to go bigger this year to cycle the length of the entire continent.
“We’ll be riding ultra-distances day after day through extreme conditions, and despite having some great endurance athletes by my side it will still be an incredibly hard challenge for us all.
“To do this for these incredible charities that change people’s lives will be the purpose that will get us through the hardest moments.”
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