I stood on an empty stretch of the Alaska Highway and squinted north as the sky darkened. I had parked a couple of miles away ...

Long before endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox became the fastest woman to ever ride around the world, men at the bar she worked in used to tell her she was lying about her achievements. “That ...

Lael Wilcox is an ultra-endurance legend. And yet, aged 20, she’d barely ridden a bike. It was only when she started a new job 6km from her home and realised cycling was the most efficient way ...

Lael Wilcox recently completed the impossible when she set a new cycling world record for the fastest trip around the world, an 18,000-mile trip, and she shave two weeks off the previous record.

It took 108 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes. That’s the new women’s world record to cycle around the world.