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00:01Six months ago, five teams took part in an unforgettable competition.
00:10Let's go.
00:11We got this.
00:12Rapido, Rapido.
00:13Up there. Can you see that?
00:15Oh, this is sick.
00:16An epic race of over 12,000 kilometres from west to east.
00:23Look at this. Incredible.
00:25Yeah, you see that on a new build in Manchester here.
00:28Well, we made it.
00:30From the sun-drenched, bustling streets of Sicily...
00:34That's a view and a half, you know, screensaver vibes.
00:37..to the vast, unforgiving wilderness of Mongolia...
00:41I love how flat it is into, like, absolute murder.
00:47Absolutely epic.
00:48..they tested their own stamina and endurance.
00:52Give it out!
00:54Can I have your skates?
00:55Nobles.
00:57So we've lost our lead.
00:59Across eight countries, rich in culture and experience.
01:04Give me your vodka!
01:06Welcome, Kazakhstan!
01:09Today's celebration is called a circumcision party.
01:13Sick.
01:13I don't think I've ever seen anything so cool in my life.
01:18But only one team could claim victory.
01:21Three, two, one.
01:24And take home the £20,000 prize.
01:28No!
01:31No!
01:32Now, for the first time since the finish line, they reunite.
01:36Hello!
01:37How are we doing?
01:38To share their stories.
01:39I don't think I was thinking anything other than,
01:43I can't believe I'm here.
01:44To reveal how the race changed their lives.
01:46We wanted to make sure this didn't break us,
01:49and it's actually made us stronger.
01:51High five.
01:53I wanted to do that for a long time, Kit.
01:57Margot, she's very open, very free,
01:59and I've taken that on board.
02:04And to marvel at the process undertaken
02:07to bring their extreme journeys to the screen.
02:10We just need to make sure we know where all the teams are at all times.
02:13They're like the brain of race across the world.
02:15What a job to be able to do.
02:17As they all relive...
02:21Let's go!
02:22...their race...
02:23Come on, Mark.
02:24It's right there.
02:25...and across the world.
02:36Having arrived home in the UK almost six months ago,
02:40all five teams are coming back together.
02:44Hi, folks.
02:45Hi, guys.
02:46I'm going to pop some microphones on you.
02:47Yeah.
02:48This is very professional.
02:49None of this on the road.
02:51First to arrive, siblings Katie and Harrison,
02:55ready to see their fellow competitors
02:57for the first time since leaving the race.
03:01I can't wait to see the guys.
03:03I'm so excited to see them.
03:05How you doing?
03:06The second duo to join,
03:09father and daughter Andrew and Molly.
03:12Hello!
03:13Go.
03:14I'm so excited.
03:17I'm so excited.
03:19Good to see you, sir.
03:20Good to see you, sir.
03:21Good to see you.
03:22That's beautiful.
03:23Look at you.
03:24Good.
03:25Oh, my God.
03:25It's just been absolutely wild.
03:28Should we go and do it again?
03:29Yeah.
03:29Should we go and do it again?
03:31Next, to walk through the doors...
03:33Hello!
03:34Hello!
03:36In-laws Mark and Margo.
03:38Mark, how we doing?
03:39Very good.
03:40Good to see you.
03:41Oh, look at you.
03:41Good to see you.
03:42Good to see you.
03:43Have you been up to any adventures?
03:45He's been travelling.
03:46He got his rucksack on.
03:48Did you have a rucksack?
03:49Yeah.
03:49Yeah, rucksack.
03:50In Thailand.
03:51On his own?
03:51On my own.
03:52Singapore.
03:53Sri Lanka.
03:54So jealous.
03:55And guess who I bumped into Sri Lanka?
03:57Who?
03:58Oh!
03:59You've been away.
04:00You've been away.
04:01Yeah.
04:02I did Sydney, New Zealand and then Sri Lanka.
04:06Race really gave me that sense of freedom to go.
04:09Actually, I can do a bit more travelling.
04:12We bumped into each other.
04:13That is fun.
04:14I know.
04:14It was so good.
04:16Hi.
04:18We're at a five-star hotel and all we can find to eat is...
04:24Mongolian vegetable noodles and...
04:27Mongolian seafood rice.
04:30There we are.
04:31We cannot escape Mongolia wherever we care all their food.
04:34Hi!
04:35Hi!
04:36Also back with the group, cousins Pooja and Roshni.
04:40Girls!
04:41Hi!
04:42Hi!
04:44Hi!
04:46Hi!
04:46How are you?
04:47Do you love the voice?
04:48That's my voice.
04:49Oh, perfect.
04:50Your voice is gone.
04:52Oh, that's just...
04:55That is terrible timing.
04:57I'm sorry.
04:59And the last pair to join the pack, 19-year-old best friends Joe and Kush.
05:05Are we the last ones?
05:07Yeah, I think we're the last ones.
05:10There's the lads.
05:11Yay!
05:14Awesome!
05:15Good to see you.
05:16Good to see you.
05:17Good to see you.
05:18Good to see you.
05:19Good to see you.
05:20Good to see you.
05:21Your boys, your boys.
05:23You got very fond of them, didn't you, on the trip?
05:25They're like our little brothers.
05:26They're our little brothers.
05:27So, Gares, as the people who left early, who do you think, between the whole lot of us,
05:31who do you think won?
05:33Who's giving winner energy?
05:34We always thought that you two would win.
05:37Mark and Margo, yeah.
05:38You were always so charming and, like, full of energy.
05:40And, like, you just seemed to know everything.
05:42Like, with my dad, like, I could ask him any question, he would just know the answer.
05:45I feel like you're exactly the same.
05:46Oh, gosh.
05:47Who ever won, can you please step forward?
05:54Oh, my God, I'm so proud.
06:07Rosh, look, it looks like a cathedral.
06:10These five pairs put their everyday lives on pause and came together for an epic adventure.
06:17But it was actually months before they stood on the starting line that they began their journey.
06:24They were selected from thousands of application videos.
06:28Hello, everybody, it's Molly and...
06:31Daddy.
06:31Andrew.
06:33Hello, I'm Harrison.
06:35And I'm Kent.
06:36We are siblings.
06:37I'm 22, she's 20.
06:39Why we want to do it is because we want to see the world, we want to experience things,
06:43add some spice to life, you know, keep it interesting.
06:46Yeah, I've experienced, like, different, yeah, cultures, people.
06:50Hi, I'm Pooja.
06:51And I'm Roshni.
06:52Please take us.
06:53Yeah, we would love to go.
06:55We really want to go.
06:56Why do you think we'd be good, Mark?
06:58Well, we're like chalk and cheese.
06:59I'm very practical.
07:01Boring.
07:01Margaret just has fun, fun, fun.
07:04And as casting progressed, all shortlisted candidates were brought to London to test their navigation skills.
07:13Without phones or cash, and armed only with cryptic clues.
07:19Ask someone, please.
07:20Yeah, unless you've burned my mind.
07:21Excuse me, ma'am.
07:22Excuse me.
07:22Excuse me.
07:22We're in a race at the moment, and we just need some help finding out where our location
07:26is.
07:26Molly's taking charge.
07:28I follow her.
07:32We're in a competition.
07:33You wouldn't take us to Golden Hind.
07:35Does anyone know if this is Southbound?
07:37It's Southbound.
07:38It's Southbound.
07:39No, it's good.
07:39It's Southbound.
07:40Just ask people.
07:42It's easier.
07:42Do you want a challenge?
07:43And these ladies are filming for this challenge to see if I can get any for my birthday.
07:47It's 59 today.
07:48I've got my passport and my bag if you want to see.
07:4959.
07:50Oh, this is sick.
07:53No way.
07:54That's sick.
07:5521 minutes.
07:56What?
07:57Yes, mate.
07:58Nice.
07:59Well, thank you.
08:00Amazing.
08:00Four months after selection, they arrived at the airport having packed for every eventuality
08:08with no idea where in the world they were heading.
08:11Ooh.
08:12Their destination revealed just hours before departure.
08:17You'll be flying to...
08:18Palermo in Sicily.
08:20Sicily.
08:20Oh, my God.
08:21Southern Italy.
08:22We're going to have pizza tonight.
08:24Oh, that's brilliant.
08:26Sicily.
08:27That's good, yes.
08:27Yes.
08:27Yes.
08:29In the historic city of Palermo...
08:32I'm actually really nervous, can't I?
08:34Same here.
08:35...they all came face to face for the very first time.
08:38Here we go.
08:39Oh, God.
08:40They're looking fit and young.
08:41Good to meet you.
08:42I'm Margot.
08:42Margot, I'm John.
08:44Oh, I can see you.
08:45Hi.
08:46Okay.
08:47So I'm guessing everyone's here to win.
08:48I have a saying, second force loser.
08:51Oh, okay.
08:53Suddenly, I'm just like, I need to win this.
08:55That's like drawing the enemy lines now.
08:57Will we get this thing started?
08:59Yeah.
08:59Yeah.
09:08When we first met you guys in Palermo, it was like that couple minutes of hi guys and then it
09:14was off.
09:14I don't think I was thinking anything other than, I can't believe I'm here.
09:18Yeah, yeah.
09:19And I can't believe I'm about to do this.
09:21And this backpack's heavy.
09:22I hypnotised myself to believe the backpack was really light, didn't I?
09:26She did.
09:26But as soon as I got home, what the hell?
09:30After the first leg, I thought Katie and Harrison were just going to blow us out of the water.
09:37You know, a day and a half ahead of the first leg, you know, it's unbelievable.
09:41It was, it was very intimidating to have you guys so far ahead, because we didn't know anything about you.
09:45You're a myth.
09:47But then when we met you, Harrison, you still impressed.
09:50Your understanding of budgeting and timings and like this overview that was almost like a computer.
09:56I felt like that.
09:57That couldn't turn out.
09:58That is him, yeah.
10:02I've got a toiletry bag the size of a house.
10:05Yeah.
10:06Well, I've got all the useful stuff.
10:07I've got alarm clocks, compass.
10:10So you just bring, you know, the stuff you need and I'll bring the stuff for both of us.
10:14Yeah, no, you're getting it now.
10:17Katie and older brother Harrison started the race with very different attitudes to money and planning.
10:24You definitely took the role with the budget.
10:27You were in a deep emotional relationship with your calculator.
10:31We have spent 8.5% this leg of our total budget.
10:36Which is very, very good.
10:38It works.
10:39Being a tight bastard works.
10:43Pocket meat and cheese.
10:46Really dry.
10:48Really dry is an understatement.
10:50Like I've just stuck my face in the Sahara Desert.
10:52That's so sweet.
10:54I took it very personally as my responsibility to get us to that finish line.
10:58And it kind of soothed me to constantly be unthinking about it.
11:01Oh, look at this.
11:03This is not good for the budget.
11:04I've got a shot glass collection at home.
11:07Who buys all this shit?
11:11Me!
11:13That really took over for me.
11:14Like I just couldn't help but be like absorbed by the race and the race environment and not the experiences.
11:19Although the race environment is about winning, it's also about the unique way of travelling that you're doing by racing.
11:27I genuinely loved every second of it.
11:29You know, maybe I didn't have that drive because I was just enjoying it so much.
11:33Like I just honestly had the best time ever.
11:35I think everyone would agree you were pure sunshine the whole way through.
11:39I think one day you were like, you were sitting with a glass of Prosecco at Checkpoint being like,
11:42I could be at work on a Monday.
11:44No, I'm not!
11:46As they ventured further east, Katie's desire to pause and take it all in...
11:51Peels very much once in a lifetime.
11:55..started to shift Harrison's perspective on the race.
11:59I'm on a horse in Kyrgyzstan.
12:03It's incredible.
12:06That is just ridiculous.
12:08This is stunning.
12:11This is stunning.
12:19Birmingham.
12:20A picture of Tesco Express.
12:24Tesco.
12:25Tesco.
12:26Yeah, Tesco.
12:27He was so chuffed with this picture of Tesco Express.
12:30I know.
12:30Such a lovely moment, but funny.
12:32Why am I sat in a tree house in Turkey looking at a picture of Tesco?
12:35It's Express.
12:36That was kind of when I sort of let go a little bit and stopped and started to appreciate and
12:43spend time with people.
12:44And that's really where I came away with the mantra that, okay, this is actually what the race is about.
12:47Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
12:50Are you sure?
12:51Oh.
12:52What has he given you?
12:53It's a medal.
12:55Oh, half marathon.
12:57We are friends.
12:59Well, Harrison actually sent something, didn't you?
13:01Yeah, yeah.
13:02We got in contact with the guy that sent me a medal and I sent him my one back in
13:07a little sort of UK hamper box.
13:09Oh, that's so nice.
13:10Yeah.
13:11You've come back and you've gone like, you've gone like I need to travel and I do think it has
13:17like changed you.
13:18I have to say that I probably do see the value in it, the monetary value in it now.
13:22I've not spent my own money yet on it.
13:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:25But it might happen.
13:26I guess now you've learned that firstly, it's not like a holiday.
13:29Well, I call it a bit holiday sometimes.
13:31Maybe if you're doing it Margo's way.
13:35Their growth as a team came from learning to open up to one another, deepening a bond in ways Katie
13:42had always wanted.
13:44I don't know, I feel I just felt like, why is this affecting me and it's not affecting him?
13:49Like, how does he seem so okay about it all?
13:52I definitely think the race has helped me, like, verbalise, like, my feelings.
13:58Because before, like, I might have felt like I wanted to say something to you, you know, something bothering me,
14:04I felt upset or something.
14:06But I physically could not get the words out.
14:09Whereas now, I think because, yeah, the race is just a really intense environment and you've got to be supportive
14:15for each other.
14:16I just wanted to say, erm, like, I suppose, thank you for being there and being...
14:23Well, that's really nice to hear, actually.
14:26I now just feel a lot more supported.
14:29Yeah, like, the race gave me a better understanding of you and you a better understanding of me.
14:34Yeah, but you do grow and you have to and it's a life experience and you have to accept it
14:37as a life experience and realise and take something from it and you did.
14:41Yeah.
14:42Yeah.
14:43Okay, got it.
14:45It's a good one for your hinge profile, Harrison.
14:47Makes you look really cool.
14:49I've got a man bag on there.
14:50Feels like I'm going to plunge your toilet.
14:53If it looks that bad, could you please try and help me?
14:58Together, come on.
15:00Oh, my God.
15:02Well done on the finish line.
15:03We wouldn't have been able to have as good of a time with anyone else.
15:07It was sort of the perfect combo and we've got that for life.
15:10Yeah.
15:11This is breathtaking.
15:14Incredible.
15:16Oh, wow, look at that one.
15:18The teams were on the road for 51 days.
15:22Absolutely incredible.
15:23It's hard to find words, isn't it?
15:24It is.
15:25Absolutely, yeah.
15:26Yeah.
15:26With cameras recording their every move.
15:29With them, a five-person team responsible for capturing the general views, known as the GV crew, who film the
15:37scale, beauty and rich variety of the journey.
15:43If I want to give up teaching, there's one job I would want to have.
15:46It's the crew.
15:47They do all those picturesque shots and what a job to be able to do.
15:51We're shooting Athens out today.
15:52We've been up here since half six this morning.
15:56A big bank of cloud came in and kind of killed us a little bit.
16:00Well, sometimes it helps.
16:01It came out and, like, created all these shadows across the city.
16:04But thankfully, the weather has picked up.
16:06The sun is shining.
16:12The team that take these incredible shots really get to be creative and think about how to capture this beautiful
16:20area in the best way possible, which is what you see on the screens.
16:24So they essentially inspire the whole of the UK and whoever watches the race across the world to want to
16:29go to these places by the way they capture it on camera.
16:33Wow.
16:34Look at this.
16:36We're going to shoot this time-lapse over the mountains.
16:39It is beautiful here.
16:40The landscape is incredible.
16:47And it's heckling.
16:48They've got so much stuff, right?
16:50They've got long-distance cameras, wide-shot lenses.
16:52They've got close-ups.
16:53They've got everything.
16:55Yeah, they smashed it.
17:00Alongside the GV crew, there are three more vital teams dovetailing seamlessly.
17:05To bring the race to life.
17:08Combs, check.
17:09Yeah, head down.
17:09Check.
17:10In London, a 20-strong team of producers, researchers and production management, following evolving stories and potential routes.
17:19You've got someone who is relaying back every decision, everything we say to the head office in London.
17:26Yeah.
17:26Who, obviously on UK time.
17:30It feels like the brain of...
17:33Control centre.
17:34Control centre.
17:35There you go.
17:35I'm thinking about it medically, but they're like the brain of race across the world.
17:38And then you have like the limbs in...
17:40Oh, God.
17:41On location, a small embedded filming crew, living and breathing every step of the race with each pair.
17:49How are you feeling, Werner?
17:50I think that's your duvet, Aaron.
17:52This is the duvet?
17:53That's the smaller one.
17:54The bigger one should be the sheer.
17:56Oh.
17:56You're going to put your lavender spray on it.
18:00And finally, the checkpoint crew, who are one step ahead of the racers, tracking their every move and planning for
18:08all eventualities.
18:10We've got Joe and Kush.
18:12I've got 10am.
18:13Do you think that's right?
18:13Yeah, I think about 60 minutes away.
18:15There's a whole team that stays in the checkpoint and they've got their own job to do.
18:19If they go the most efficient way, they'll get a car all the way up to there.
18:23But there are various other points that they could get dropped on the hill.
18:28They are responsible for setting up and testing the final run to each new checkpoint hotel.
18:35Oh, my God.
18:36Hi, Tom Elise.
18:38I'm at ease.
18:40Oh, there we go.
18:43And they're to support each team on their arrival.
18:46Say hi, Hannah.
18:47Give me the camera.
18:49What's your role, Hannah?
18:51My role is to look after cars when they're at checkpoint.
18:55Make sure they're fed, watered, happy, healthy.
18:58And that's it.
19:00Once the planning's done, it's over to the race.
19:04Unpredictable.
19:06Unscripted.
19:06And whatever happens, whenever teams arrive, the crew has to be ready.
19:11We are here at the finale location and we are just waiting for one of the teams to come in.
19:17Where the spit is, there's a direct line of sight.
19:19So we don't want the cars to see us.
19:21So we're having to lie down and hide, voiced for the signal.
19:28OK, boss, go, go, go, go, go.
19:29Everyone.
19:31That is a spit, isn't it?
19:33Yeah.
19:34When you're coming in to checkpoint, it gets really exciting, doesn't it?
19:38Ah, here we go.
19:41I'm about to have sent some messages.
19:44Any of these devices for the runway?
19:45The fuse.
19:47OK.
19:51Find the amphitheatre and the way for the instructions.
19:54Define the minute, right?
19:55I think it's at the other side of the bridge.
19:58OK, ready?
19:59Power everything up.
20:03Is this right?
20:04Yeah.
20:05Oh!
20:07There are two blocks in there.
20:08Yeah.
20:12Bonnie.
20:14Father Salah, it's here, Margot.
20:16It's here.
20:16Yes!
20:17It's all that things fired.
20:19Copy that, we're rolling.
20:20Here it is, John.
20:25Please, silence here.
20:28What?
20:44As the checkpoint is approached, the reality of each precious minute falls into focus.
20:51Lads, we're going to beat you.
20:52No way.
20:54Come on, Mark.
20:56With every team throwing their all into the chance to climb the leaderboard.
21:01Hey, go speed up, lad.
21:02You OK, Pudgy?
21:03I'm good, Pudgy.
21:04Faster, faster.
21:06We've got a checkpoint to get to.
21:07Get me out of this taxi and ready to run.
21:10Traffic jump.
21:12It just felt like tables turned so quickly.
21:16We can't afford to make any mistakes and we've already made one.
21:19The crew can give you absolutely no help and it can be very easy to go like,
21:24guys, you're giving me nothing here, but they can't because then it's not fair.
21:28It's a taxi joke.
21:29Don't ask what's going on because they don't know.
21:32They had to walk through every stupid decision we made knowing we were going in the wrong direction.
21:38Actually, we're kind of going back on ourselves.
21:40Yeah.
21:41Oh, God.
21:42But having the lead is one bus journey away.
21:45Big money moves.
21:46Big money moves, little money moves.
21:47It's right there.
21:50Come on.
21:51Hope and pray, now.
21:55We were looking out for the boys because we noticed you becoming more savvy and more competitive.
22:01Because you said from the first, we're in it.
22:03We're really seriously in it to win it.
22:05But there was more and more like, we're not going to talk to you.
22:07You could be a threat.
22:08And it was.
22:09These guys.
22:10Because you're clever.
22:11That's the thing.
22:11But quite quickly, you were like, zoom.
22:14Here are the boys.
22:16How are we?
22:17Do you know where you're going now?
22:18Yeah.
22:18Right, you guys, you got a plan?
22:19Yeah.
22:20We have a plan, yeah.
22:21Are we allowed to know where you're heading to?
22:24They're trying to present funds.
22:25Yes, you're trying to get up.
22:26They're trying to get information else.
22:27See you, boys.
22:28We'll see you guys soon.
22:30Oh, no.
22:31Best friends last night.
22:33Sworn enemies.
22:34Yeah.
22:34Whoa.
22:35Oh, oh, oh, oh.
22:36We were there to win, really.
22:37We are.
22:38We were there.
22:39I've been saying this from the start.
22:40We both have been saying this from the start.
22:41We were there to win.
22:42I think I have to win.
22:43You just want to do better than everyone else.
22:46Oh, we brought back to one.
22:47Five and six, they win.
22:50We're ten short.
22:51Is there any way we could change money?
22:53I don't know.
22:54There was a situation where Molly and Andrew were ten euros short.
22:58You wouldn't give us a tenner for a tenner, no?
23:00Oh, that's a shame.
23:01Thought that.
23:02That's a shame.
23:04I was like, nah, realistically, we're here to win.
23:07I feel like we should not belong.
23:08No.
23:09Oh, lad, what are you trying?
23:11You were very, very down to just lend them a bit of money.
23:15I'm glad we didn't give any money.
23:16I'm glad.
23:17Set a precedent.
23:18100%.
23:20I would very much say that your experience was to win, and you really enjoyed it.
23:24And the whole way through, we were very competitive, obviously.
23:27But we were fourth, and we were trying our hardest, and we were still coming in.
23:31And, like, we were constantly back of the pack, back of the pack, and it was about staying in it.
23:36People talk about strategies.
23:37If we had any strategy coming into this, was to stay in the game as long as possible,
23:41and then try and win it at the end.
23:43And that's what we did.
23:44Yeah.
23:44Were you two right behind each other at the final match?
23:47We were not going to.
23:47Not speaking to you again.
23:49That's okay.
23:50It's all right.
23:51That's okay.
23:52The gloves are off.
23:53No.
23:54But there's a good amount of luck.
23:56And, like, I think, like, the favourite moments for me, and it sounds so sad,
24:00but it was when, like, connecting transport just worked out.
24:03Honest to God.
24:04Like, I just couldn't relax until I knew what Charles thought was going on.
24:08Elimination leg.
24:09Mr Meany made us wait for a bus.
24:11I decided on budget terms that we should wait and get the bus rather than pay the taxi.
24:16And we waited three...
24:18Three and a half hours.
24:19Three and a half hours for a bus.
24:20You should have waited 12.
24:22Of course.
24:27Smile.
24:28Oh.
24:30Your shoes get wet.
24:31Wet shoe.
24:32I love my feet right now.
24:33They're very happy.
24:36The cousins embarked on the race to step away from the busy careers they'd worked hard to build
24:41and embrace a more unpredictable way of life.
24:46Pepperoncino.
24:47Calabrese.
24:48This is different.
24:50Roche is absolutely smashing it.
24:52She's maintained her energy levels.
24:54Look at her. She's so cute.
24:56Quanto.
25:02What are you doing?
25:03Oh, no.
25:04Yes, you can.
25:05Why?
25:05Yes, you can.
25:06Yes, you can.
25:08So, growing up, you know, we lived, like, two streets away.
25:11We were, like, very close.
25:13But life happens.
25:15I think the goal of just going onto this is we'd both been in our careers for, like, ten years.
25:20Um, so life gets very intense.
25:23And we wanted to do something about that.
25:26This guy.
25:27He is a guard of the gods.
25:29Okay, he's waving.
25:31I've always wanted to take time off, but there's always been a reason not to.
25:34So, I guess race kind of forced us to take the time off, and it kind of, it showed that
25:39it's not the end of the world.
25:42Where are you going?
25:43Ah!
25:44Oh, sorry.
25:46What time is the buff?
25:48Dundee.
25:49Yes!
25:50Yes!
25:50I'm feeling pumped.
25:52We're flying high.
25:53I think we've handled ourselves really well on this leg.
25:56I'm excited, Posh.
25:58We're second.
26:00We're second.
26:03It's been a wake-up call.
26:05With family, you always think people are going to be around, but actually, you need to put in that effort
26:09to make sure
26:10you keep that relationship.
26:12And, you know, we just, we wanted to make sure this didn't break us.
26:16And it's actually made us stronger.
26:18Yeah.
26:19But their momentum faltered in Turkey.
26:22We asked about buses tonight, but unfortunately there wasn't anything available.
26:26It gives the other teams time to catch up.
26:28And arriving in last at the third checkpoint led to their surprise elimination.
26:34Please sign in at Overleaf.
26:35Oh!
26:36Oh, my God.
26:38We're lost.
26:46I think when we saw the book, we didn't expect that everybody would have done so well on that leg.
26:54But you guys aced it.
26:55But saying that, it was a great leg.
26:57Like, we had an incredible time.
26:59And honestly, Mongolia was for you guys.
27:03Like, I'm so happy that you guys had that adventure.
27:06Also, we got to go on our own adventure.
27:09Yeah.
27:09We went on a trip to Vietnam after all of this ended.
27:14It was just such a great place.
27:17Way.
27:18We got to have really good food.
27:21Yeah.
27:21Get massages.
27:23Yeah.
27:23We just had our own experience.
27:25We planned to go away together again with our husbands, with our families.
27:30So, if this had not happened, I don't think we would be doing that.
27:35I don't think we would be as proactive.
27:36Yeah.
27:37You think about, like, what race and travel has given each one of us.
27:41That has brought you together.
27:43And, like, my wife has said to me, like, who are you travelling with?
27:46All that kind of thing.
27:46And I'd say, like, beautiful girl, who's an anaesthetist.
27:49And I go, I just want Molly to turn out like you.
27:53And I mean that.
27:54Just amazing.
27:54And lifelong friends, hopefully.
27:57Absolutely.
27:58We missed you though, honestly.
28:00We wanted to sign your names in the book as well.
28:03Oh.
28:10That is amazing.
28:12For all the teams, this was a journey defined by endurance and extremes.
28:18Look, look, look.
28:19Oh, that is really nice.
28:20You can see the whole coast.
28:21From the sun-baked coastlines of Europe to the untamed expanse of Central Asia.
28:27Oh, my God.
28:30Look at this.
28:31It is like the wild west mark.
28:33Look at this.
28:33It is, isn't it?
28:34Yeah.
28:36Into the sub-zero temperatures of Mongolia.
28:38Oh, I feel the cold.
28:42Retracing a path steeped in history along the old Silk Road,
28:46they encountered a huge variety of people and local customs.
28:52My father.
28:53Oh.
28:53Hello.
28:54Hello.
28:54Nice to meet you.
28:55Hello, hello, hello.
28:56Hello.
28:56Nice to meet you.
28:58Oh, my God.
29:00Oh, my God.
29:01Oh, my God.
29:02Oh, my God.
29:02Oh, my God.
29:03Oh, my God.
29:03Oh, my God.
29:03Oh, my God.
29:08It's just such a, like, extreme, is it?
29:10Like, you just started off in, like, central mainland Europe,
29:13where you had all the comforts, really, of home,
29:16and then going to just...
29:18It literally is mad.
29:20Once you left Europe and went to Kazakhstan,
29:25it was an alien environment.
29:27It was rocky, it was dry, it was arid.
29:30And from that point, it was a completely different journey.
29:34But even from the trains, you must have got to see, like, scenery.
29:38Nothing? There's absolutely nothing. What?
29:40What? It's like being on the moon.
29:42I can't describe it, there is nothing there.
29:45You really, throughout the whole experience,
29:48went from one to the other.
29:50Done.
29:51It went from language to no language.
29:54Do you have...
29:55Afto?
29:55Car?
29:57Machine?
29:59Afto?
29:59Auto-transport to no transport? Yeah.
30:02The bus? It's all closed, yeah.
30:05Closed, yes.
30:05I found the bus station.
30:07It was just a shed.
30:09Holy moly.
30:10Traffic jam.
30:12Look at them, there's millions of them.
30:14Yeah, I'd say this year, race is very much extreme.
30:17That's the word to sum it up.
30:19I think it's just so nice that you just, you're worried that,
30:23oh, they don't speak the same language.
30:24Yes.
30:25But you find a way to communicate.
30:26Like, whether it's you dancing with everyone or, you know,
30:30our man with the Tesco.
30:31Like, you, you...
30:33Yeah, you find calm and groin.
30:34You'll always find a way to communicate.
30:37That was, like, the most beautiful thing ever.
30:38Yeah, yeah.
30:38When we did all these homestays, like, to live and sleep on the same roof,
30:43share the food, like, this is such a privilege.
30:45It's even more of a privilege in my eyes than being able to afford,
30:48like, the five-star hotels.
30:50No, they treated us like family.
30:55Oh, my God.
30:59You've done that so well. Thank you.
31:02Places that we went were very different to the Western world.
31:05It was a real, it was a culture shock in the coolest way.
31:08Is this a really big deal?
31:10Oh, my God. Is it an eagle?
31:13Hello. Nice to meet you.
31:14My name is Nazgut.
31:16Nazgut? Yes.
31:16Kush, it's nice to meet you.
31:18Your eyes are so beautiful.
31:19Oh, thank you.
31:23I love the outfits.
31:24This is what I think we were both searching for
31:26on this journey as a whole,
31:28is the experiences that aren't readily accessible.
31:37It's very bitter.
31:38I quite like it. Delicious. Look at him delicious.
31:41Good. He's very good. Yeah.
31:45But when we got to Mongolia, it really got hard for us.
31:50We really struggled.
31:51It felt like your choices were kind of taken away from you.
31:54Because at the start, it was kind of, do you go by boat?
31:57Do you go by train? Do you go by car? Do you go by taxi?
31:59It then just became get there.
32:01You couldn't be competitive with each other.
32:03You were just being competitive against Mongolia.
32:05Yeah. It's the best way to put it, is that you were fighting the elements.
32:08I think that the temperature swing the whole way we figured out was like a 54 degree temperature
32:12swing from hot, it's the cold, it's just, I was looking forward to the cold, but maybe
32:18not that cold. Maybe I wish too hard for that.
32:21Like, your clothes had to change. Yeah.
32:24Your clothes for Italy, Greece, and wild temperatures, and then all of a sudden, those clothes just
32:30kind of... You should have just thrown them out.
32:32We couldn't. Just thrown them out, had less weight to carry.
32:34No, just layering up, layering up. Just layering up.
32:37Mongolia just wore the same outfit every single day.
32:39Yes. I did. And all your clothes every single day.
32:41Yeah. Honestly, did any of you change your clothes in Mongolia?
32:44Yes, I didn't. No.
32:47But as somebody who's only kind of really gone on family holidays, I really, really struggled
32:52with the, did I have the ability to put a backpack on me and travel in that way? Always wanted
33:00to do it as a child, always wanted to do it as a young person, and never did it.
33:04Because it was pure want to do it, but it was a fear kind of stopped you doing it before.
33:09Yeah. It was a physical test as well as a mental test.
33:11One of the reasons I did lack self-confidence in my ability to do it was the heart attack.
33:17Mm-hm. And the heart attack put me back kind of mentally quite a bit.
33:23Starting off in Sicily, my God, it'd be amazing.
33:28For Andrew, the race became a way to see the world.
33:31Look at that, Molly. Absolutely stunning.
33:34And prove his heart attack three years ago wouldn't hold him back.
33:38I would always say to children in class, the world's your oyster, go and enjoy it.
33:45But I never lived it. And I was always kind of a bit of a fraud that way.
33:50Whew!
33:52Jesus!
33:56You're sweating, boy!
33:58The relief of getting to that first checkpoint and signing that book gave me the shot in the arm.
34:06I looked at you and said, we can do this. The stamina's there.
34:09And we can enjoy it as well. And we can enjoy it.
34:12It's my first train in Italy, Molly. You know my love of trains.
34:16Look at the striations of the rock, the way they're going down the lines.
34:19Oh, my God, look. Never seen these before, ever.
34:23Different way of doing it. Total different way of doing beekeeping.
34:26And there's your honey. Seeing the mountains, seeing the landscape,
34:29seeing where people live. That's what I do. That's what I love.
34:34I'm really looking forward to getting out in the kayak.
34:37I have my own kayak at home, but I've never actually used it because of my...
34:41Dickey ticker.
34:42My Dickey ticker. So I haven't been able to do it, so...
34:45Yeah, it'll be lovely.
34:50Whoo! Out in the open water.
34:53Look at those mountains.
35:02I've wanted to do that for a long time, kid.
35:05It proved to me that I could, uh...
35:10It wasn't going to get me.
35:14Sorry, kid.
35:23It was so nice to kind of have the kayaking,
35:26and, like, just that whole thing to us was just really special.
35:29Like, you kind of have to cherish those moments.
35:31It's very important to cherish those moments.
35:33Just enjoy it, and that's...
35:35I think I try to say that to everyone.
35:36I absolutely enjoy it.
35:38Have you actually been kayaking since?
35:39I've actually booked a trip. We're going to Norway with my wife.
35:45I think that whole rocky coast all the way up there would be unbelievable.
35:50Yes.
35:50Yeah.
35:51And we've booked kayaking in the fjords.
35:54Oh, wow.
35:55That'll be beautiful.
35:58I don't want to be stuck in a train station.
36:01For Molly, the race was an opportunity to find her own path in life
36:05and prove her independence.
36:08Is there a bus to Kiva?
36:09A bus? No.
36:12I don't know what to say. I don't know.
36:15Before the race, I would have found it very difficult.
36:17Those big decisions.
36:19I would have overthought it.
36:21I would have got annoyed myself, especially if it went wrong.
36:24I don't want 100.
36:26I want 70.
36:29Daddy, he did for 70.
36:33Well done.
36:34Good call, yeah?
36:35I do think now I am a wee bit more self-confident.
36:40That contentment has come with my decisions.
36:42People need their doctor to be confident because that's who you're looking to for answers.
36:47So it's really nice to sleep at night and not have thoughts and thoughts and thoughts and thoughts.
36:53It was a definite change in Molly towards the end.
36:55Did it?
36:56Yeah.
36:56There was a strong sense of more confidence.
36:59Yeah.
36:59And more decidedness.
37:03Swamps up.
37:05Swamps up.
37:07Swamps up.
37:17Swamps up.
37:18I think pre-race we kind of proved to each other and like in life we proved to each other
37:23we're good as
37:24father and daughter.
37:25And I think race the one thing that allowed us to prove to each other is we're a good team.
37:29And that is we can make decisions, we can have equal opinion and hold each other and be like,
37:35yeah, no, that's good, that's bad and communicate.
37:37We're a good kid.
37:38We've done.
37:38We did it.
37:39We did it.
37:40All right, kid.
37:41From Ridley.
37:44We're safe.
37:48So it'll be her daddy for the rest of my life.
37:51Yeah.
37:51But also it'll be more of a friendship and a pal, yeah, absolutely.
37:58There's features of beauty, isn't there?
38:00Yeah.
38:01It's got stonework.
38:02Mega.
38:05Also looking to strengthen their bond and find a new dynamic, in-laws Mark and Margot.
38:11Oh, wow.
38:13I'd love to have a go at one of these, wouldn't you?
38:14I know you would.
38:15Come on, you get one, I get one.
38:19Going with Mark, though, I really wanted this, but there was a little bit...
38:23We weren't completely comfortable, were we?
38:25Not at all, no.
38:28I found her annoying.
38:30And Margot thought I was a boring old fogey, basically.
38:34Judgy and boring. Judgy and boring, yes.
38:37Yeah.
38:37You may all know, Julie's last dying wish was that we became friends.
38:41We continued and build on our friendship and that's what we did.
38:45I love Naples. Absolutely brilliant place.
38:48I hate it.
38:49I loathe Naples.
38:51I just didn't enjoy it at all.
38:53I did think, how's it going to go with Mark?
38:56How are we going to be on the race?
38:57And I have to say, some people were a little bit doubtful about the two of us doing it together.
39:03They were a little bit, why are you going with Mark?
39:07What, in God's name?
39:09It's a white cocoon.
39:10What was it for? What did you...
39:11What was it?
39:12It's modesty, sir.
39:13I just think it was ridiculous.
39:17But as the race progressed, we didn't have a care in the world, did we?
39:21No, no.
39:21Not a care in the world.
39:24Try hitting it flat on, like that.
39:27Oh, okay, okay.
39:29Oh, yes!
39:32Now we're talking. Now we are talking.
39:40We're just two people enjoying the moment.
39:42And we were just having a bit of a laugh, weren't we, really?
39:46We were, yes.
39:49And it just organically just grew.
39:54The last two legs of it was so hard in Mongolia.
39:57That's when the real, it was the real cement between us,
40:00because that's when it was, we were on our knees.
40:03Yes, we were, yeah.
40:03And we needed each other, and we both needed to really pull together, didn't we?
40:07And support each other.
40:11No.
40:13Not the busiest of highways, is it?
40:15No.
40:17If you miss a rush hour.
40:19We had to suffer.
40:20I think we had to suffer and push and strive for it really to be the adventure that it was,
40:28and for it to truly make us unite and have each other's back.
40:34We're doing blue sky thinking today.
40:36That's all we can do.
40:38You know, this determination to finish, a side of Margaret I'd never seen before.
40:43It's what kept me going, just about.
40:46Do you go to Harcorden?
40:48Yes?
40:48Oh, of course.
40:49So kind.
40:50Off we go.
40:51We're doing it our way, and we never, ever give up.
40:54As a team, we've always carried on.
40:57We've always forged on.
40:57We've always forged on.
40:58And I'm so proud of her for doing that.
41:01You know, I would have given up.
41:03I would have given up without Margot being there.
41:06I wouldn't give up on you though, Mark.
41:07I know you wouldn't.
41:08And that's a sign of friendship.
41:12Here's to you, Julia, wherever you are.
41:14Yeah.
41:15Who inspired us.
41:16Who inspired us.
41:17Thank you, Julia.
41:19Yeah.
41:19Thank you, Julia.
41:20She's laughing.
41:24For Margot, travelling was also an opportunity to step away from her day-to-day routine.
41:30Part of coming on the race was like running away from real life and just enjoying myself
41:35and just be me for a change and just go, let rip.
41:38Taking respite from her responsibilities, like caring for her elderly mum.
41:44Since I've got back from the race, I've been more centred.
41:48I did feel like Dorothy coming back in The Wizard of Oz, you know,
41:51coming home and that there is no place like home.
41:53I was kind of, in a way, running away from my situation in life.
41:58But now, actually, the determination I was applying to those challenges,
42:02I've applied them to my life.
42:04Is this BBC?
42:06BBC, yes.
42:08Race across the world.
42:10To make things nicer, to make things easier.
42:14And so I'm living that best life.
42:16But in Liverpool...
42:17Oh, my goodness!
42:19For Mark, the race also became something more.
42:21Oh, my gosh!
42:25Shifting his perspective on life itself.
42:28It's unbelievable, this!
42:30Oh, wildness!
42:32It's strange to say, you know, at 67, I was always embarrassed about doing things.
42:37What people might say, what people might think.
42:40I just couldn't care less now.
42:41Anyway, because Margot, she's very open and very free and doesn't worry what people think about her.
42:47And I've taken that on board.
42:48You were first on the dance floor in Sri Lanka as well.
42:51He led, he led the party.
42:53Oh, I was, yes.
42:54Yeah, the bailer.
42:55Yeah.
42:57You know, for us, we were winners because we'd done what we wanted to set out to do.
43:01And we'd won for Julia.
43:02That was the thing.
43:03Yes.
43:03Yes.
43:03We are good, good friends.
43:05We're mates now.
43:06We are, yeah, mates.
43:07Do you think you'd go on holiday again?
43:10Well!
43:10We've been talking about it, yes!
43:12Yes!
43:12We have been talking about it, yes.
43:13And we'd like adventure.
43:15We do want to, we are definitely up for adventure.
43:17Like, it's so nice that you have that relationship together and you've built that for Julia.
43:23Like, wherever she is now, I'm sure she's very happy to see you both like this.
43:26It's almost like she was on the race with you.
43:28Yeah.
43:29She was on the race with you.
43:30Yeah.
43:30That's lovely.
43:31It's a lovely legacy.
43:32Lovely legacy.
43:41Arriving in Mongolia, the filming teams faced one of the toughest environments the race had come up against.
43:48Navigating extreme weather and limited infrastructure after months of meticulous planning.
44:01The planning of Mongolia, it must have been a huge endeavour for everyone.
44:05We're here in Mongolia.
44:06It's all very exciting.
44:07We've got this massive map of, uh, the country that our level fixers have, um, lent us.
44:13And we basically have just got all of the stops and the potential places we think that the cast might
44:18be headed.
44:18We just need to make sure we know where all the teams are at all times.
44:22To ensure safety, production members keep the teams trackable and in sight whenever they travel by car and what are
44:29called follow vehicles.
44:32So this is day 42 of Race Across the World and I'm, uh, in our SV following the cast and
44:39crew.
44:40There you are.
44:42They are over here.
44:43I'm currently wrangling yesterday's rushes.
44:47This is my office.
44:50It's the final two weeks of race and this just feels like an absolute privilege and pleasure to be here
44:57filming this.
45:00It's in the middle of nowhere, but we're in Mongolia.
45:03I actually currently can't hear them because we've got so many devices plugged into me.
45:08We've got all keys, we've got phones, we've got Garmin's.
45:13Currently the only way we can contact the SV is with our Garmin.
45:17Oh.
45:18So...
45:19Yes, we're on our own.
45:28All right, weather.
45:30Again, we may need 620, minus 25 degrees.
45:33It's going to be cold.
45:34Stay covered properly.
45:36Yeah.
45:37Good luck.
45:39It's still warm.
45:41Well.
45:43While we're in here in Mongolia, it's cold during the day and even colder at night,
45:47so we need quick access to extra layers after sunset.
45:50From Italy to Mongolia, we've gone from plus 30 down to minus 30,
45:56which in itself brings new problems.
45:59Where Italy was sunburn, here it's hypothermia.
46:03To battle the sub-zero conditions, everyone on the ground had to be equipped with extreme cold weather gear.
46:10This is where we slept last night, but the stove was off.
46:14It's exceptionally cold.
46:15Lots of layers on.
46:16It is quite extreme here.
46:18The worst part of the entire night was doing snoring, guys.
46:21That's such a bib.
46:22That is your snoring.
46:23Your snoring.
46:25It's colder than I had expected that I bought you.
46:27The coats we had, the outfits, like, we'd put your hood up and pull the zip ties,
46:33and you'd literally have a little space like this to look through.
46:36It was just fun, isn't it?
46:39Yeah, but I think I grossly underestimated how cold it was going to be.
46:44Ending in Mongolia was just crazy.
46:47It is so cold.
46:49Yeah.
46:50Oh, my God.
46:53Where are you going?
46:54I don't have a clue.
46:56There's just such vastness and so many random things can happen.
47:00So for the crew, the amount of planning needed to try and get 10 idiots to race across the world
47:04is insane.
47:11I mean, when we started this whole journey, we always said, we were like, when we travel,
47:16we want to live it, but me and Jo have never really, we spent some time together being like
47:19little holidays, but it's never been more than like, what, like a week, two weeks we've ever spent
47:23at the same time, and so it was nothing to what I'd imagined.
47:29This is important.
47:31Slides are sharp.
47:32And these comfort, comfort is your best friend.
47:35Those are old man's shoes then, bro.
47:37Those are old man's shoes.
47:38No.
47:39Eager to make every second count, fresh out of college, Jo and Kush wanted to explore
47:45life beyond the familiar world they were raised in by their mums in Liverpool.
47:50This is our plan.
47:52This is our security, which I'm going to be taken charge of.
47:56We still need to be on it with Kush sometimes.
47:59We've got our passports, Kush.
48:00Yeah, yeah.
48:02Excuse me.
48:02Are you trying to say that?
48:04Liverpool's a small place.
48:06We've gone out the city, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of like, you still don't scale
48:11how probably the world is.
48:12I mean, coming into this, once we applied, we realised we are probably going to be the youngest.
48:17Come on.
48:17So I think with youth comes this preconception of lack of maturity, lack of life experience.
48:26We see ourselves as the underdogs.
48:28We see ourselves as the, yeah, the least capable.
48:30And I think she flipped on it.
48:33It is past 3am in the morning.
48:36Yes, 3am in the morning.
48:38I don't think any change could have done it faster.
48:42Don't judge a book by his cover.
48:44I think one thing about me and Jo is we actually, we're good at different things.
48:47We work well with what the other person lacked is.
48:49And like me, I sort of overthought a lot.
48:51And I was like, ah, we have to do everything and think of it in a specific way.
48:55And so, and Jo would be like, no, just act, do.
48:57So that's where I would have probably held us back if I kept trying to plan everything.
49:01I would still be in Palermo if I, if I, if I, if you went there.
49:04But you, you, you're behind the strategy.
49:09You're like, you're very calculated.
49:11And I think I focus too much on the present, whereas you look so far into the future.
49:16It helped me see the finish line, if that makes sense.
49:19Actually, Jo and Kush, I feel like you make the mistakes at the beginning.
49:23And you learn from those mistakes early on.
49:26And then you ace it for the final round, which is what I think you guys basically did.
49:31Tried our best.
49:32Yeah, well, especially being, being last, it's a kick, it's a kick up the, kick up the ass.
49:36You know what I mean?
49:37Although he sustained a drive to succeed.
49:41Uzbekistan, this way.
49:43She doesn't know he's gone.
49:45Oh, my days.
49:46Kush struggled with his mental health.
49:49We need to do for this price.
49:50It is in no way.
49:52Oh, I feel sick.
49:56I think the race was probably the peak of my, of my struggles when I was losing the most sleep.
50:03The risk of making one wrong choice had such a impact.
50:08You have a lot to worry about.
50:10I'm going to be thinking the entire night.
50:12It's been such a rough day.
50:14I had a lot of reminders of, of my dad and it dug up a lot of feelings that I
50:18hadn't dealt with.
50:19We can still do this.
50:22God.
50:24We just can't give up.
50:26I think a lot of the race involves how you cope with stress.
50:30Because if you let the stress get to you, you will break and you can literally, you could go home.
50:36And you can't expect to go on a journey and expect it to be all fine.
50:39But I know you're benefiting from venting.
50:43Just talking, yeah.
50:47I just really appreciate the fact that Joe's always up for, for sort of looking after me in a way.
50:58Yeah, I mean, he is, he's my best mate.
51:05But yeah, we, we kept each other sane, we, we, we kept moving.
51:11Come on, bro, final spin.
51:13And we never gave up once.
51:18What? Wait, how did we do that, bro?
51:24I've started seeing a weekly counsellor just to, to help process my emotions.
51:28And I think it's really, really helped.
51:29Nothing to do with the race, just in, in day-to-day life.
51:31And now I can learn to handle myself a lot better.
51:34But it, but it's about learning.
51:35Yeah, exactly.
51:36Life's learning and life's about learning and learning as, as you make, as you go on.
51:39It's better to learn it now when you're younger.
51:41Yeah, definitely.
51:42When you're 67.
51:44The one thing the race did teach as well, is it is actually okay to ask for help.
51:47I mean, we couldn't have done it without asking for,
51:50100%.
51:51Only hundreds of people helped us on our journey.
51:53I'm going to pay this.
51:54What? Are you serious?
51:56Yeah.
51:57Oh my God. Oh my God.
52:00Thank you so much.
52:01You've been so much help.
52:03Don't say we can stay at his house.
52:04What?
52:09How many times a week do you eat sardine?
52:11Five.
52:11Five times a week?
52:13Yeah, yeah.
52:13Is that very strong, yeah?
52:15Yeah.
52:15No gym, no training, nothing.
52:17Just sardine.
52:18Just sardine.
52:18Just sardine.
52:19Yes, yes.
52:21The people they met and the confidence they gained from them,
52:24inspired Joe to travel independently, taking his first solo trip to the Gambia.
52:31I think, yeah, the race definitely encouraged me to continue traveling.
52:35And I don't think I would have gone to Gambia without it.
52:38I did get in contact with this family who owned a farm and they look for travelers to come help
52:44them work and in return they get food, a shelter and a family to chill with.
52:50And that's what I did.
52:51And I did, I explained how I wanted to explore, explore my heritage.
52:57And I think they resonated with that. They were very caring.
53:02What would you like to do next? What do you fancy doing?
53:05We've got no real plan at the moment in terms of the future, but I know that we both are
53:09going
53:09to travel. We don't know where yet, but it's going to happen.
53:12At 19 years old, you guys have accomplished something so major in your life.
53:17I wish I was doing the stuff like this when I was 19. I was just revising for exams.
53:22That's my whole life.
53:23Honestly, so proud of you. So proud of you from the bottom of our hearts.
53:28Genuinely.
53:30Let's go. Let's go.
53:33This is it, bro.
53:36It was tough and it's amazing to know that we can get through it and succeed.
53:44Three, two, one.
53:54I feel this race is bigger than the degree.
53:58You're actually joking.
54:05The biggest thing I've taken from the race is that life's to be lived and go and enjoy it.
54:12It's not all be all, end all. Yeah.
54:15Like there is another way and actually the wins end up being a lot sweeter because you've dealt with the
54:19low.
54:20You can just do whatever you want and the world is there to be seen and put your phone down
54:26and actually listen to people.
54:28Can I take you into school and say that?
54:33I've got a question for everyone.
54:35Would you do it again?
54:36Yeah, absolutely.
54:38Absolutely.
54:39Yeah, I'd pay a lot of money to do it again.
54:46Oh, nice.
54:49Mmm.
54:51Pudge, look, look, look.
54:56It's gorgeous.
54:59Young, single, available and full of dumpling. What more could you want?
55:05Oh, where are we going?
55:09It's definitely the most beautiful drive I've ever been on my end. Highlight.
55:12Wow. It's almost mystical, isn't it?
55:15Oh, my teeny macaroonie.
55:18Oh, look, there's one there. Oh, it's huge.
55:22You all right?
55:23I love you.
55:24I'm very proud of us.
55:26I'm proud.
55:27Epic, absolutely epic.
55:30Katie, what are you doing?
55:32Oh, f*** it.
55:36Whoa!
55:37Oh, my God!
55:38Did you have one?
55:39Yeah!
55:41You did it!
55:43You won.