On Friday, Kiwi Tim Chittock will be travelling to India to set a Guinness World Record for cycling 'The Golden Quadrilateral'.
Starting in New Delhi, he has to cycle more than 6000km around India in less than three weeks -- which is about 300km each day.
While he's excited, it's 1000km more than he's ever done before and he says he's worried about letting people down.
After training for half a year, Chittock's not coming into it unprepared.
"It's the winter in India, so they've told us we'll have mild temperatures -- 20degC to 25degC," he says. "We've got a favourable wind halfway around, so for half of it we should be happy."
But it's not all good -- he says they'll have to keep an eye out for rabid dogs, and bad water and food.
It's not the first time Chittock's attempted a world record. Last year, he cycled an impressive 5000km across Australia.
"We actually made it," he says.
But they were plagued by bad luck -- the LPG tanks in their campervan exploded and the campervan burned down, they hit a kangaroo, they were poisoned by salt water and they even got struck by lightning.
"But we did make it," Chittock says. "It was mainly my little brother Hugh, he got us through the times."
To cap it all off, the Guinness World Records couldn't validate the trek.
"We hadn't tracked the trip properly," Chittock says. "We couldn't prove the points we'd crossed.
"We've got a GPS tracker this time so they should be able to tell exactly where I am all the time."
Chittock's raising funds for Asha for Education, a charity which helps all aspects of education from food to classrooms.
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