Joe Barr is the current Ultra Marathon Cycling Association (UMCA) World Champion in the 500–mile overall championship. He is the first Irish endurance cyclist to bring home a World Championship. It’s also the first time in Joe’s 45+ year multi-discipline cycling career that Joe has broken through to this level and all at the age of 58.

And he shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. Joe is about to take on the mighty Race Around Ireland. Here he tells us what drives him, how he pushes through the pain, and why at 58 years of age he has no intention of retiring any time soon.