Owain Wyn Evans popped into the Breakfast Show studio to talk Sara Cox through his training for the Children in Need Four Nations Cycle Challenge, 400 miles across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland in a week.
He admitted the whole thing still hasn't sunk in. "I don't feel ready," he told Sara, saying hills are his biggest fear and that he wakes most mornings at three with the challenge already top of mind. Sara offered some hard-won advice from her own endurance days, telling him to keep snacks by the bed because "your body will be confused" and he'll wake up starving in the night. Listeners piled in with suggested names for his bike, settling on nothing official but enjoying puns like Mary (as in "get back on my Mary way") and Wheelie Tired.
Listen: Owain's hill gremlin
Owain also dropped some genuine news into the chat, revealing he's got a new job this year: co-hosting BBC One's Children in Need big night of telly alongside Alex Jones, with more presenters still to be announced. Romesh Ranganathan later teased his own appearance, hinting that a fellow Celebrity Traitors contestant will be his guest on his Saturday Radio 2 show this weekend, though he refused to say who.
Elsewhere, Sign, Sealed, Delivered brought a properly moving story from Mark in Cornwall, marking his 40th birthday on a solo motorbike tour through France, Belgium and the Netherlands, who described laying a wreath at the Menin Gate's Last Post ceremony as the highlight of his trip so far.
Listen: Mark's Menin Gate story
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