Storm Floris causes delay to major roadworks through Borders<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n St Ronan\u2019s Primary School in Innerleithen was one of the control points for the event, Britain\u2019s biggest organised cycle endurance challenge.\n<\/p>\n
\n There was also one in Hawick.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cyclists have 128 hours to complete the journey, with sleeping normally kept to a minimum and done on the floor of halls or marquees.\n<\/p>\n
\n Riders were due to benefit from hot meals and drinks, dormitory beds, mechanical support and the enthusiasm of around 70 volunteers in Innerleithen.\n<\/p>\n
\n Locals put themselves forward to help, as well as many from further afield.\n<\/p>\n
\n One had even cycled from Germany to lend a hand.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the Innerleithen checkpoint, which had expected to cater for hundreds of riders, was visited by just one.\n<\/p>\n
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Ian McBride was the only rider to make it to the Innerleithen control point (Image: Contributed) Volunteer Miriam Adcock had been scheduled to help on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo much work had gone into the planning of this event, which is wholly volunteer-run,\u201d she said. \u201cPlanning has taken four years and around 1,000 volunteers across the UK were involved.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut on a positive, many of the riders are posting about how much they\u2019ve enjoyed the event.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n She added: \u201cAs I work for Zero Waste Scotland, which runs the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, I was obviously concerned about how much food would be wasted at the control points that were expecting to cater for over 2,000 riders plus the volunteers.\n<\/p>\n
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Donations were made to the Innerleithen Swap & Share Shed (Image: Contributed) \u201cLots of local organisations have been wonderful at redistributing the leftovers from Innerleithen and another control point at Eskdalemuir. St Ronan\u2019s Primary School, Hay Lodge Hospital, St Ronan\u2019s care home, Peebles food bank and the Innerleithen Share Shed have all helped, so thank you to them all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers of the London Edinburgh London event, which started on Sunday, were forced to cut the route short…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-57195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195","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=57195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}