{"id":305235,"date":"2025-11-24T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305235\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:49:14","slug":"cyclists-take-on-cobble-wobble-hill-climb-in-frome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305235\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists take on Cobble Wobble hill climb in Frome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clara Bullock,West of England and <\/p>\n<p>Alastair McKee,Somerset<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763877190_266_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/61869f60-c88a-11f0-82e0-31e11fc64e8c.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC A boy in a yellow T-Shirt and helmet is racing up a narrow path with people standing on either side, cherring him on.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p>Children and older athletes take part in the Cobble Wobble, as well as some in fancy dress<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A race taking cyclists up a steep and narrow cobbled hill has taken place in a Somerset village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Cobble Wobble in Frome attracted people in fancy dress alongside professional athletes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The route up Catherine Hill is designed to test the riders&#8217; strength and skill, and the winners are crowned the King and Queen of the Cobbles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Andrew Denham, who founded the event in 2009, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a silly bicycle race that goes up Catherine Hill &#8211; there&#8217;s no good reason to ride up it, really, but that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763877190_266_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bf324240-c87b-11f0-b59b-8f3754d4238d.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man in a yellow T-Shirt is standing on a cobbled street, looking at the camera. He is wearing a cap backwards and is smiling. There are people in the background lining the street.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Denham said the race is &#8220;silly&#8221; but fun<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said some people take about 20 seconds to go up the hill, and others take about two minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;In 2009, the Tour of Britain came through Frome and we did it as a way to celebrate it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It got such a wonderful reception that we decided to keep on doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Starting at the base of Stony Street, the course takes a sharp turn onto Catherine Hill, climbing 179 yards (164m) before ending where the cobbles give way at the hill&#8217;s summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The event provided the blueprint for Germany&#8217;s popular Cobble Hoppel and Red Bull&#8217;s Hill Chasers, held in cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The race has also attracted famous athletes, including Chris Akrigg, a six-time national champion, who won in 2010 with a time of 21.51 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Bullock,West of England and Alastair McKee,Somerset BBC Children and older athletes take part in the Cobble Wobble,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-305235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305235","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=305235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}