‘It’s a lot of pedalling, mate’: cyclist Lachlan Morton making record pace in 14,200km journey around Australia

The professional rider says the demands of the outback odyssey are ‘wildly different’ from racing as he eyes fastest circumnavigationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“It’s not a holiday,” says Lachlan Morton, an Australian professional cyclist more than one-third of his way through an epic quest to cycle around Australia.More than a century ago, in June 1899, Arthur Richardson left Perth to ride the circumference of the Australian continent