Eddie McGourley has been riding bikes for over 70 years, and he started racing as a junior back in 1958, but this week, part way around his 83rd lap of the sun, he pedalled himself right into the record books.
It’s yet to be officially acknowledged by Guinness, the self-appointed guardians of such things, but as far as he understands it, the fastest time any octogenarian had previously pedalled the 1,000-odd miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats was 14 days, and McGourley has just done the distance in 10 and a half days.
