Farhood Goodarzi has been cycling around the world at 12 hours a day for eight years and nine months.

His journey began with a trip around France but once he started he realised he couldn't stop.

He recently came to Australia for a two-week holiday but two weeks quickly became two months.

Mr Goodarzi cycles with a 70-kilogram load on his back and his longest single stretch was mind-boggling 14,000 kilometres through Russia.

But despite the physical demands of his lifestyle, the father-of-one said his routine was simple.



"It's easy, I ride for one hour and then walk for 10 minutes," he said.

"Then I have a juice and keep going for another hour."

In the past eight years he has been pushed to his limits but said surviving extreme conditions and other challenges all came down to attitude.

"You have to concentrate on the beautiful things," he said.

"If you concentrate on the difficulties, the challenges just get more and more difficult."



He has nothing but praise, however, for his current base.



"I want to congratulate Australians on their beautiful country and to the government for having such a beautiful people," he said.

The only drawback of being in Australia was being apart from his daughter Fahimeh, who is waiting for him in New Zealand.



She first rode with him in Azerbaijan, aged just nine - a gruelling venture that he now admits was too much, too soon.

But the pair have plans to pick up again soon, and this time become record holders.

"My daughter and I are going to be the first father-daughter team to ride all the way from Alaska to Chile and we'll break the Guinness World Record," he said.



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