Braybrook local Sammy Muscat has returned from his second 4000km self-supported ride across Europe that involved sleepless nights, treacherous weather and the equivalent of climbing Everest seven times. <\/p>\n
Not bad for a guy who hasn\u2019t been cycling all that long.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t even been cycling in the scheme of things for long. I took up during Covid as a bit of an escape,\u201d Mr Muscat explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of just fell in love with cycling and all of the community around it, and quickly became known as the guy who really liked to \u2018send it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to see what I am capable of, pushing the boundaries of how far and long I can go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ride started in southern Italy, took him through the Alps, in and out of all kinds of conditions, then ended in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
But the journey started long before that.<\/p>\n
Nine years ago, while in his early 20s, Mr Muscat suffered heart failure.<\/p>\n
The day he woke from an induced coma was the day his family had come to say goodbye.<\/p>\n
This ride helped raise more than $10,000 for the Heart Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braybrook local Sammy Muscat has returned from his second 4000km self-supported ride across Europe that involved sleepless nights,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-168778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}