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Greg James is going to cycle 630 miles across the UK over eight days
Radio 1 DJ Greg James is set to take on his most "ludicrous challenge" yet for Comic Relief - despite saying he would never do one again.
The breakfast show presenter is going to cycle 630 miles (1,000km) across the UK on a tandem bike over eight days in March.
He will be riding mostly solo during each eight-hour daily leg, but says he will be joined by other Radio 1 presenters and some special guests along the way.
It'll be Greg's third Red Nose Day challenge after completing five triathlons in five days in 2016 before cycling between Scafell Pike, Snowdon, and Ben Nevis - climbing each of them - two years later.
Greg vowed the 2018 Pedal To The Peaks endurance test would be his last.
But he's changed his mind and will set off for his cycling challenge from Weymouth, Dorset, during his breakfast show on 13 March.
He'll then ride through England and Wales - passing through villages, towns and cities - before ending at the finish line in Edinburgh on Red Nose Day on 20 March.
"I do think it will be a ludicrous challenge, and one that I don't know whether or not I can do," he says.
"But I'm going to try it.
"A little bit of pain is worth the overall goal of raising loads of money for Comic Relief."
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The bike ride will be Greg's third challenge raising money for Red Nose Day
The DJ says he expects to be joined on the tandem by a "mixture of well-known people and [Radio 1] listeners".
"I need them to be good cyclists," he said.
"The reality of it might be that they wobble and we both fall off."
Greg says he's coming out of "challenge retirement", but it's going to be "brutally hard and relentlessly demanding".
"The world feels really overwhelming at the moment. There's a lot of things to worry about and everything is just feeling a lot," he says.
"I'm dedicating this challenge to anyone who feels like they're carrying life's load on their own."
