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I bumped into someone in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ canteen today who eats even more than I do. When you consider that after that show I ate two large pizzas back to back you'll realise this is not an idle boast.

Just as I was about to pay for my coffee I realised the guy clutching the plate with two cakes on it was the inspirational Scottish cyclist who holds the record for "circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle". In other words he has cycled around the world faster than anybody else.

You may have seen the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland documentary which followed his progress or you might recognise him from those slightly bizzare "I am the woman who knocked me off my bike" ads for a mobile phone network.
It took him 194 days and 17 hours to cover 18,297 miles through 20 countries. I figure that if you've done 18 thousand miles you are entitled to eat twice as many cakes as everybody else.

Mark told me he went through 6 thousand calories a day on his trip which is a staggering amount of healthy food but probably translates to the equivalent of two plates of pie and chips out of our canteen.

He's about to embark on a new challenge which you'll hear about in due courseÌý - unless of course he fancies joining me in training to break the world pizza scoffing record.