James and I have been guarding this with our lives, it has been with our passports and our credit cards and other vital bits and pieces.

Ron Rutland

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It is absolutely surreal to be in Japan, there has been some times during this journey that it has been a little touch and go and we had a very tight schedule we had to keep to.

The fact that 223 days later we are still talking with each other, even off-camera, is a sign that it worked out in the end.

To be honest at the end of that I was pretty broken physically, i had a hip replacement in the past year and I thought I was over it all -- I had had these two big adventures and maybe thought it was time to settle down and get a real job.

Ron Rutland and James Owens're gluttons for punishment, it's pretty relentless going to be honest. We're in our saddles probably about seven hours a day.

My heart tells me we can go all the way and I genuinely believe we could, i think we're not one of the top two or three favorites but I quietly think we've got an outside chance. The optimist that I am will be cheering them on.

Other than the English Channel and the sea between Shanghai and Osaka, we are determined to cycle every inch -- but not at the expense of doing anything reckless and stupid.