{"id":266081,"date":"2025-11-06T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266081\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:30:10","slug":"watch-no-place-like-home-is-rob-brittons-longest-and-hardest-ride-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266081\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: ‘No Place Like Home’ is Rob Britton’s longest, and hardest ride yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m really good at bad ideas,\u201d Rob Britton says. The Regina-born former road pro expands on that, saying it applies to a lot of his projects, not just the Big Ride Home, now documented in\u00a0No Place Like Home. But Britton\u2019s ride from Victoria, B.C. to Regina, Sask. over nine days is one of his better (or badder?) ideas.<\/p>\n

Britton\u2019s winding, mostly un-paved route from the west coast to the heart of Canada\u2019s prairie provinces is now the subject of\u00a0No Place Like Home. A scenic tour, at pace, Britton describes this as his \u201clongest, and one of the hardest rides I\u2019ve ever taken on.\u201d From a man that\u2019s played a vital role at road world championships and won gruelling gravel races like Unbound XL<\/a> to describe a trip in those words, carries some weight.<\/p>\n

Rob Britton\u2019s (really) Big Ride Home<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So do the numbers. 2,600km. A leg-shattering 26,000 metres of elevation gain. 84 hours in the saddle, solo, over just nine days. Those are the kind of stats that would crush a lesser human. Britton? He still had time to stop for ice cream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Numbers aside, Britton also describes this as an incredibly meaninful ride. The sort of adventure that\u2019s increasingly defining the second act of the Canadian racer\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

Rob Britton:\u00a0No Place Like Home\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Rob Britton say about\u00a0No Place Like Home?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Place Like Home is a short story of my 2400km- 9day journey from Vancouver Island across western Canada back home to where I grew up in Rergina Saskatchewan. This was the longest and one of the hardest rides I\u2019ve ever taken on and one that meant so much more than any race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m really good at bad ideas,\u201d Rob Britton says. The Regina-born former road pro expands on that, saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,117921,122656,10599,121290,24373,82,36245],"class_list":["post-266081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-gravel-events","tag-no-place-like-home","tag-regina","tag-rob-britton","tag-saskatchewan","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}