Women's Guinness World Record holder for fastest circumnavigation hopes to RaceAcrossAmerica 2016 and give bike away.

In 2012 Julian Buhring made the first women’s world record for fastest circumnavigation by bicycle.

In 2013 she competed as the only woman in the Transcontinental Race from London ending in Istanbul, crossing the Alps. Juliana finished in 12 days and placed 9th overall.

In June 2014, Juliana raced the inaugural Trans Am Bike Race. Starting in Astoria, Oregon, and finishing in Yorktown, Virginia, the race is 4,322 miles long, with 67,000 metres of total altitude. Buhring finished the race in 20 days and 23 hours, winning first place in the women’s category & 4th place overall.

This year she hopes to compete in Race Across America (RAAM), one the most respected and longest running endurance sports events in the world. Racers must traverse 3000 miles across 12 states and climb over 170,000 vertical feet. This will be Juliana’s first supported ultra-cycling race and she is keen to discover how much further she can push herself within this category.

I sent Juliana an email recently asking for advice as an aspiring female ultra-endurance cyclist, and explained that despite my lack of resources, I fully plan to cycle across country this summer on my brother's hand me down 95' GT Cirque. I was in tears when I received her email offering to gift me one of her beautiful cross country bicycles, explaining she knows well what it is like to begin a trip like this with little more than your own determination. This is the woman who road the last 36 hours and 500 miles straight in the Trans America Race, and her believing in me means the world.

Originally she intended to raise the final $5,000 by selling one of her beautiful cross country bicycles, but has instead chosen to create a gofundme page (https://www.gofundme.com/rtxxwze4) to raise funds for her team and instead of selling her bicycle, gift it to an aspiring female endurance cyclist and local farmhand with sub-standard income. Juliana is a champion for women, female cyclists and children's rights (http://julianabuhring.com/safe-passage-foundation/). Please contribute to her ride and share her fundraising page here: https://www.gofundme.com/rtxxwze4.