{"id":679142,"date":"2026-05-18T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:41:11","slug":"the-beautiful-and-damned-tales-from-balkan-ultra-the-accursed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679142\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful and damned: Tales from Balkan ultra The Accursed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-endurance races are now a feature on many a cyclist\u2019s bucket list, and perhaps for that reason event organisers are looking to push the distances involved and the remoteness of the terrain to ever greater extremes.<\/p>\n<p>Enter young Balkan upstart The Accursed Race from Lost Dot, organiser of The Transcontinental Race. While Lost Dot\u2019s other events allow riders a certain amount of freedom in route choice, The Accursed Race has a fixed 1,600km route, predominantly off-road, starting in Albania and spanning a number of Balkan nations, including the Accursed Mountains from which it takes its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultra-endurance races are now a feature on many a cyclist\u2019s bucket list, and perhaps for that reason event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,195892,85],"class_list":["post-679142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist-magazine","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679142","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=679142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}