Inverness cyclist Jenny Graham will join Mark Beaumont and Hamish Graham in a gruelling cycling challenge for charity next summer.<\/p>\n
World-record breaking cyclist Jenny Graham is to take part in gruelling 3500-mile European bike challenge for charity.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
They aim to raise \u00a3100,000 for the My Name\u20195 Doddie Foundation<\/a>, which funds pioneering research into Motor Neurone Disease and supports families living with the disease, and the Yorkshire Children\u2019s Charity<\/a> which supports children living with disability and hardship across the region with essential equipment and emergency resources.<\/p>\n \u2022 Inverness world record cyclist Jenny Graham up for award<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 World record endurance cyclist praises school’s mountain bike trail<\/a><\/p>\n The two Scottish cyclists will join Yorkshire entrepreneur Martin Mansell, chief executive of EnjoyTravel.com<\/a> and the force behind the Yorkshire Beast charity challenge, plus Hamish Graham, of Yorkshire, who raced across Europe in 2025.<\/p>\n The team will ride from Nordkapp to Tarifa, riding 220 miles a day across seven counties in just over two weeks.<\/p>\n 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 \u2013 knocking three weeks off the previous fastest woman record.<\/p>\n Her route covered four continents and 16 countries, travelling from Germany to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Mongolia and China.<\/p>\n She also pedalled across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA, then Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium and Holland.<\/p>\n She cycled 15 hours a day, including at night, managing an average of 156 miles a day.<\/p>\n She is also the author of Coffee First, Then the World.<\/p>\n She has raced and toured globally, guided countless riders, and presented documentaries with Global Cycling Network in some of the world\u2019s wildest environments.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, he joined Mr Mansell in a seven-day 1100-mile race from Leeds to Nice to raise \u00a355,000.<\/p>\n July\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n