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35 Years Old Today 🎂 Thanks for the Birthday Wishes!

Added 2025-04-21 13:08:25 +0000 UTC

53 YEARS OLD TODAY! (According to my birthday present)🎂🎉 Honestly, this photo is the shocked expression of someone whose never seen so much cheese in Japan 😅

✨Thank you to everyone for all the warm birthday wishes. It was a spectacular day - it started with a painful 65km cycle over a mountain range and ended with Japan’s biggest cheeseboard surrounded by amazing friends.

We’re now 9 days into our Cyclethon and my legs are beyond repair. But thanks to this incredible community, over $467,000 has been raised for the Immune Deficiency Foundation so far! Knowing I’ve been a part of this is seriously the greatest birthday present of all. (Though to be fair the cheeseboard was pretty damn impressive🤩).

Credit due to Connor for finding this impressive amount of cheese! Back on the road tomorrow across the plains of Iwate! It might just be the stretch I’ve been looking forward to the most given it’s mostly flat and Iwate’s plains are full of hidden shrines, temples and hamlets. We’re in for a treat!

Before this Cyclethon is over I’ll be sitting down to shoot a Patreon vlog letting you guys know how it’s all been going behind the scenes. But to be honest, I do think it’s my favourite series yet. We experienced winter in Hokkaido. Spring in Tohoku and soon summer when we arrive in Tokyo. 3 seasons in two weeks! With the scenery to match. Anyway best get to bed - long day ahead tomrorow.

Thanks again for all the support on stream and the birthdays wishes guys! ✨

Looking forward to taking good care of all that cheese on tomorrow’s journey 😋

Chris