{"id":626480,"date":"2026-04-24T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:37:08","slug":"extreme-measures-one-mans-training-for-an-epic-mountain-cycling-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626480\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme measures: One man&#8217;s training for an epic mountain cycling odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>39 minutes 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":"39 minutes 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":626481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-626480","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\/626480","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=626480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}