Glad to hear you've enjoyed this week's show.
Yes, I enjoyed it too.
What leap from the page for me was Steve's sense of forever needing the next challenge. Never content to sit on his distance laurels like some of us [points finger at self!] events and achievements are very soon history for him. What lies ahead is the next stage - as he describes it himself. And so very clearly for Steve, this is the next stage in his long distance career, it's not some quick cobbled-together scheme on the back of a fag packet kind of activity, it's all part of a very steady progression that began years and years ago.....ever since he was a kid by the sounds of it.
Many of us pointed our bikes at the beginning of the long distance path, many of us have ridden it, and nearly all of us, sooner or later, get to a point were we're content to go no further. The loops stop presenting themselves as appealing challenges to leap through. It's an individual thing. Genes, propensities, disposition, interest, call it what you will. Steve is a long, long way from that point yet.
Fascinating stuff.