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Jun 8, 2023

Tegan in her own words: 

“Once upon a time… I was studying to be a lawyer. 

Then I drew some comics in a competition to win a bicycle, which I rode across Spain, telling the story of my adventure through a comic blog. 

This kind of adventure storytelling was too fun to not wildly pursue, so I spent the next few years finding ways to go on more adventures (which included an 11,000km bike trip through Africa with my family, and a 10 Iron Man triathlon around New Zealand), while figuring out how to turn it into a real job. 

Today, I work full-time as a cartoonist, speaker and endurance cyclist. I am currently working on a book, setting up a comic merchandise shop in South Africa and training to try again to set a women’s record of the fastest cycle from Cairo to Cape Town in Oct 2022 February 2024.” 

The challenge: Cycling Africa: Cairo to Cape Town. 1 continent, 8 countries, 10,800 kilometres, and 58,000 elevation, setting a women's world record that needs to exist.

 

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Show notes

  • Who is Tegan
  • Her love of going on big adventures on her bike
  • Growing up in South Africa
  • Spending a lot of time outside
  • Living in Cape Town
  • Going on a family cycle adventure 
  • Cycle touring
  • Being inspired by Tom Allen 
  • Her first solo trip in Spain 
  • Getting lost, falling off the bike and figuring it out
  • Feeling completely free
  • Transitioning into the adventure life
  • Her love of adventure
  • Professional Adventurer?
  • Problem solving while on the road
  • Cartooning and why it’s more like writing 
  • Making decisions after university 
  • Trying to figure out what to do next
  • Feeling a lot of pressure
  • Reflecting back on her earlier work
  • Being encouraged to follow her passions
  • Heading off to New Zealand to do 10 Iron Man 
  • Trying to figure out how to make money
  • Adventure Grants
  • Altum Consulting 
  • Training plans and joining a triathlon club
  • The planning and preparation 
  • First blind woman attempting to climb Mt. Everest - Shawn Cheshire 
  • What does success look like on an adventure?
  • Anticipating unexpected challenges
  • Where the idea came from to cycle from Cairo to Cape Town
  • Finding out that there was no women’s record for the Cairo to Cape Town cycle 
  • 2019 - applying for the Guinness World Record to find out what the rules were
  • Planning and researching for the challenge 
  • Wanting to start in October 2022
  • Needing to go through the civil war in Ethiopia 
  • Working with a cycling coach for the past few years
  • Figuring out the funding and the support team
  • Being delayed in Egypt and needing to wait 6 weeks
  • Feeling ill and needing medical help 
  • Having a seizure and ending up in hospital 
  • Processing everything that’s happened
  • Trying to figure out what was wrong
  • Having her dream fall apart in front of her eyes
  • Getting back to cycling and training
  • Hormonal problems?
  • Looking after herself and prioritising her mental health 
  • The therapy of talking
  • Plans for 2023 
  • Heading to France do to an Alt Tour of the Women’s Tour de France
  • Staying with Katherine Bertine 
  • The Women’s Tour - UK 
  • Tour de France Femmes
  • Funding for adventures and making a living
  • Working with Komoot
  • Turning 30 and how her mindset is changing
  • Having less fear and coming-out the other side
  • How to connect with Tegan
  • Final words of advice 

 

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Website: teganphillips.com 

Instagram: @teganphillipscomics 

 

 

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