05/31/2022

Adeyanju, London-To-Lagos Biker

He rode a bike from London to Lagos covering 12,000km in 41 days as part of a End Polio Now awareness. Kunle Adeyanju, “The Lion Heart”, tells Mohammed Subair of his adventure

It’s all about giving back to the community, to the society and the underprivileged. It’s about helping the world to get better. That’s the essential drive of the London to Lagos ride. 

It’s extremely challenging. Every day and night of the ride was challenging. But you know as with everything, life itself is challenging if you want to live. To those that only want to exist, life is not a challenge but if you want to live, life is a challenge. 

I knew this when I calculated the kilometres of the trip on my computer. I knew it was about 12,000 kilometres. And there is no how you’ll do a 12,000 kilometres ride and you won’t go through some challenges. There has to be challenges. And when you know this, you cannot but zero your mind because you’d never know where and when the challenges would come. What’s next is knowing how to cope with these challenges. That’s the key part of it. That’s where discipline, perseverance, and resilience come in.