One year after rolling across the finish line at Auckland International Airport, Webb has been formally recognised for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle in 337 days, 20 hours and 17 minutes — covering more than 30,000km across 21 countries.
The route took in Canada, the United States, Portugal, the UK, Georgia, India, Australia and New Zealand, with Webb navigating everything from car collisions and monsoon flooding to a lost bicycle and a rickshaw crash in India.
They did it almost entirely alone, on a tight budget, sleeping in a tent most nights. Sponsorship, Webb notes, isn’t something trans athletes tend to attract.
“Trans people like me don’t get sponsored,” they say. “I slept in my tent most nights and ate the cheapest food I could get.”
The motivation was equal parts adventure, activism and storytelling. “I wanted to add another positive transgender story to the world.”
The Guinness record, certified after an extensive evidence review, will never be broken — by definition, there can only ever be one first.
Webb is now working on a book about the journey. And sleeping considerably less in the bushes.
