03 May 2010 Postponement of circumnavigation
With much regret we have to announce that we are going to postpone our circumnavigation.
Guinness Book of World Records recently changed their rules regulating our record attempt. The rules are not the same as when
we first applied for the completion of this world record attempt. Therefore, now we have to make adjustments to optimise our
circumnavigation in order to achieve the fastest circumnavigation possible under the new rules.
08 March 2010 Back from Training Camp
After almost 7 weeks on beautiful Fuerteventura Michael has returned to
German winter. Now it will be important to remain healthy and keep the cranks turning...
10 February 2010 Website now available in Russian
The long waiting has an end. Finally, after many hours of hard work,
we can happily announce that the permanent content on our website will from this day onwards be available in
Russian!
8 February 2010 Competing rider: Vin Cox
The competition is not sleeping. Yesterday the British cyclist
Vin Cox set off from London in an attempt to circumnavigate the world by bicycle in record time. His
goal is a total time of 150 days. Vin is a competitive cyclo-cross rider and has some adventure touring
experience. He has chosen an adventurous route through Africa and South America, though it remains to
be seen whether it can be travelled in 150 days.
Obviously we will follow his progress and keep you updated about anything exciting.
We wish him the best of luck!
To check out his website go to www.greatbikeride.com.
4 February 2010 Spot Live Tracking Test
Michael used his day off to test the Spot Personal Tracker. He drove
around Fuerteventura by car and the tracker recorded his position at mostly 10-20 minutes intervals. It
is quite an amazing little device when considering that it connects with a satellite directly and the
respective GPS position gets posted to the website almost instantly! Additionally, even in cloudy
conditions, despite some delays in the transfer of information, it worked sufficiently reliable.
To have a look at the test journey and how the live tracking map is going to look like, click
here.
1 February 2010 Website now available in German
As promised earlier last month, we have made an effort in making our
website available to a larger audience. As of today the permanent content of the website is going to be
available in German.
Within the next two weeks we hope to add a Russian language version.
12 January 2010 Fuerteventura Training Camp
Good bye snow. Good bye sub-zero temperatures. Good bye winter.
During the next 7 weeks Michael is going to be training on Fuerteventura! Hopefully plenty of sunshine
will keep him motivated during the long days of base training.
11 January 2010 Sponsorship announcement: Polar Bottle
Polar Bottle is our first official sponsor. They provide us with
their ingenious insulated water bottles to keep our drinks cooler for a longer period of time!
We have used them in the past and can promise you: Polar Bottles are the
best! Additionally, our bottles are personalised and have the Challenge Earth logo as well as
our names on them. In the near future we will upload some photos for you to check out.
To find out more about Polar Bottle, see their website at
www.polarbottle.com.
07 January 2010 New year? New layout!
We have tinkered with the
layout a little to make it more user-friendly! Let us share a little secret with you: if you look through the website
closely, you will find who we are going to announce as our first sponsor next Monday!
04 January 2010 Follow us on Twitter / Facebook
Welcome to the new year! Now we have a Twitter account
on which you can follow our every step during the forthcoming months of training and preparation.
Click here for the link!
There is also a Facebook group which you may join to stay up-to-date!
Click here for the link!
30 December 2009 Website will soon be available in German and Russian
We would like to make our adventures and experiences accessible to as
many people as we can. Therefore we have decided to add two additional languages to our website. At
the beginning of February the permanent content will be available in English, German and
Russian!
29 December 2009 Photos! Photos! Photos!
After a 3 week break we were finally able to add some more content today.
For each of our past adventures you will now not only find a route map of where we have been, but also
a small gallery of photos we have taken on the way. We hope that you will like our selection!
To check out the photos click on the following links: Anchorage - Los Angeles, Berlin - Vladivostok, Bilbao - Perpignan and Malaga - Basel. More about: Find out about past adventures.
07 December 2009 Find out about the challenge!
The Fastest Circumnavigation by Bicycle is governed by Guinness
World Records. We have summarised their rules and created a table to show you how we intend to comply
with them.
More
about: Find out about the challenge.
06 December 2009 Cycling Equipment
We have just updated the cycling section of our website. If you are
wondering how our bicycle will look like, then check out the link below. There is a photo of a fully
equipped bike and a short components list!
More
about: Find out about the cycling equipment.
02 December 2009 Get to know the team (2/2)
Here is Part 2! Now there are also a few photos of Michael
and a brief introduction of him.
More
about: Find out about Michael
01 December 2009 Get to know the team (1/2)
Today we have finished the first part of the team section. There is a small photo gallery of John and
some information about him. In the forthcoming weeks we hope to add some more content.
Check out our website for Part 2 tomorrow.
More about: Get to know the team
01 December 2009 We are online!
Welcome to www.challengeearth.com! This website is about the past, current and future adventures of
Michael Hartleben and John Yates. In Summer 2010 we are going to cycle around the world
in the fastest time ever and therewith beat the current Guinness World Record.
For the coming weeks, content to this website will be added on a daily basis.
Please check back for more soon!
