The inside story of Elsey Davis’s record-setting circumnavigation of her native Cornwall – and the cruel diagnosis that drove her to take on the challenge

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

The British cycling icon talks James Shrubsall through her astonishing journey, on and off the bike

→ Sara Cox can’t keep still. “It’s like, you know when you get back from a club, you’re at a mate’s house and you’re still dancing in the kitchen? I’m giving that vibe.” But superstar DJ Cox, more nor

FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION BY TANDEM, 1975

I have a terrible habit of signing up for races I’m wholly unsuitable for. First there was the fatbike challenge in the Arctic Circle in midwinter – a chilly affair that saw me trudging through the sn