Name: Idai Makaya (UK).

Age: Born in 1974.

Personal Information: Married to Ivy – we have a daughter and a son.

Interests: Long-distance/ultra-endurance sports, martial arts, health & fitness writing, and building the ElliptiGO Community.

Sporting Background: Running, martial arts, ElliptiGO cycling, general fitness.

Why I’m doing PBP 2015: For the atmosphere, because it’s such an historical cycling event, for the purity of striving to complete the challenge, and to be a part of this historical ElliptiGO Team Endurance Challenge.

Something most people don’t know about me: I used to regularly complete half marathon running events in about 90 minutes – and for about 20 years I found running to be a fun way to stay in peak shape. But I completely stopped running after I did this 2010 interview with the runner Dean Karnazes – which had led to me taking up ElliptiGO training, instead. I now find ElliptiGO cycling even more fun than running…

Favourite Phrases:

• “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding…”
• “In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to want…”
• “We choose to go to the moon… and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”
• “Where the mind GOes, the body will follow…”
• “Adversity usually presents an opportunity for us to truly define ourselves…”

Other: Why do I do this? My PBP 2015 training programme and my PBP 2015 training, qualification & results list.

My PBP 2015 Results:

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