{"id":629293,"date":"2026-04-25T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:38:09","slug":"extreme-measures-one-mans-training-for-an-epic-mountain-cycling-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629293\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme measures: One man&#8217;s training for an epic mountain cycling odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 1:50<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Morgan Bello is embarking on a grueling six-day cycling odyssey across North Africa\u2019s Atlas Mountains and into the Sahara Desert. He&#8217;s been training indoors, clocking hour after hour on his bike trainer while wearing a rubber suit in a room he converted into a sauna. Hallie Cotnam recently met up Morgan at his home in Cantley, Que.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7 hours agoNewsDuration 1:50 Morgan Bello is embarking on a grueling six-day cycling odyssey across North Africa\u2019s Atlas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-629293","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\/629293","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=629293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}