Interview Oli Broom On Cycling To The Ashes

I meet Oli Broom to talk cricket in far flung places the perils of life on the road and his new book Cycling to the Ashes. Our story began in October 2009 when dissatisfied with a career in London Oli Broom quit his job jumped on a bike and cycled to Australia to watch the Ashes cricket series.

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It took him 412 days which means that by any definition he is a bona fide slow cyclist.

Interview oli broom on cycling to the ashes. Back in 2009 Oli Broom decided to quit work strap a cricket bat to his back jump on his bike and head to Lords. Ashes Brisbane broom Cricket Cycling oli This is my chance to say a very big collective thanks to you all for your kind messages over the past few days. Im sorry I havent blogged for a while and Im sorry I havent yet had time to reply to you individually Ive been exhausted in truth.

So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes. Oli Broom loves cricket. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes.

Along the way he played cricket in the shadow of the Blue Mosque slept in a goat pen in Sudan dodged a 5-metre crocodile in the outback battled mountains in sub-zero temperatures in Bulgaria and successfully. His final destination the Gabba Brisbane to watch England play the first Ashes. Cycling to the Ashes.

So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes. Along the way he played cricket in the shadow of the Blue Mosque slept in a goat pen in Sudan dodged a 5-metre crocodile in the outback battled mountains in sub-zero temperatures in Bulgaria and successfully. The 66 th playing of the Ashes quickly became the target which left him only 709 days to plan and undertake the trip to Brisbane before the start of the series.

One man one bike two Mongoose cricket bats one tropical disease 16000 miles and a lot of dead kangaroos. Oli Broom set off from Lords Cricket Ground in London on 10 October 2009 with a plan to cycle 20500km to Brisbane Australia to see the cricket lovers event of choice the Ashes Test Series. It still makes for a fantastic story though.

We have recently become great friends with Oli Broom who has already cycled all the way to Australia in fact just to watch a cricket match. A Cricketing Odyssey From London to Brisbane. Over lunch the other day we asked him if he minded sharing some of his story for the Ride25 blog here is what he has to say.

My interview comes in the second half of the podcast and covers a 2009-10 bicycle journey I made from London to Brisbane to watch the 2010 Ashes cricket series. Oli likes his cricket and the Ashes are deemed to be at the pinnacle of the sport a bit like how a cyclist regards the Tour de France. Along the way he played cricket in the shadow of the Blue Mosque slept in a goat pen in Sudan dodged a 5-metre crocodile in the outback battled mountains in sub-zero temperatures in Bulgaria and successfully.

Oli Broom Cycling to the Ashes. A lack of recent cycling experience was not. Cycling to the Ashes Oli Broom Wheels of Wisdom Podcast.

Oli Broom loves cricket. Oli Broom loves cricket. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes.

One man one bike two Mongoose cricket bats one tropical disease 16000 miles and a lot of dead kangaroos. Oli Broom loves cricket. The Cycling Podcast by Oli Broom I was recently interviewed by Lionel Birnie for The Cycling Podcast a fantastic podcast he founded along with.

From Alastair Humphreys Plus. O l i B r o o m. Along the way he played cricket in the shadow of the Blue Mosque slept in a goat pen in Sudan dodged a 5-metre crocodile in the outback battled mountains.

There was a technical hitch with the computer about 5 minutes into Olis talk so unfortunately he had to heroically ad-lib the latter part of it. Oli Broom loves cricket. Along the way he played cricket in the shadow of the Blue Mosque slept in a goat pen in Sudan dodged a 5-metre crocodile in the outback battled mountains in sub-zero tempe One man one bike a cricket bat 16000.

Oli Broom After taking 14 months to ride through 23 countries Oli Broom arrives in Brisbane for the start of the 2010-11 Ashes series. Oli Broom loves cricket. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes.

What possesses a man to cycle all the way to the Ashes Down Under. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to Brisbane for the Ashes. It took me 412 days and led me eventually to where I am now at the helm of The Slow Cyclist running cycling holidays in Europe.

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