{"id":2329,"date":"2025-07-18T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2329\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:41:08","slug":"boy-cycling-900-miles-for-dad-who-taught-him-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2329\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy cycling 900 miles for dad who taught him to ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jess said she was &#8220;unbelievably proud&#8221; of her son. The pair aim to ride an average of 50 miles a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Rupert is amazing, he&#8217;s going to do really well, he&#8217;s super tough and seems to have an innate ability to keep going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m slightly concerned about keeping up with him but also really looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rupert said he was most looking forward to the the Pyrenees, where he and his mum will take on 25 miles of uphill cycling on gradients of about 10%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cycling has helped with my mental fitness,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s helped with not always being at the house, seeing lots of scenery, being really healthy and eating better food.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jess said she was &#8220;unbelievably proud&#8221; of her son. The pair aim to ride an average of 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-2329","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\/2329","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=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}