{"id":888494,"date":"2026-09-08T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888494\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:00:12","slug":"tom-pidcock-takes-on-a-trail-runner-and-its-a-shockingly-close-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888494\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock takes on a trail runner and it&#8217;s a shockingly close race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Pidcock has won a few big races in his day. The Olympic cross country mountain bike race, twice, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/tour-de-france-debutant-tom-pidcock-conquers-alpe-dhuez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a little race up Alpe d\u2019Huez<\/a>. Plus many a cyclocross race and a Classic or two. The Brit\u2019s also taken on a few cross-discipline challenges, set up via his sponsor Red Bull. Most recently, that invovled a climbing challenge against trail runner Tom Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Pidcock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/top-pro-cyclists-runs-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made some pretty wild claims about his running speed in the past<\/a>, but opted for a mountain bike for this race. With a steep climb full of wet rocks, that may not have been the wisest choice. Even for the reigning mountain bike world champion, it\u2019s more of a challenge than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Watch how the race unfolds below:<\/p>\n<p>Runner versus mountain biker, it turns out, is a surprisingly competitive race. But Pidcock is a dual-discipline athlete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/top-pro-cyclists-runs-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top pro cyclists\u2019 runs ranked<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In his last random challenge, he switched bikes, and directions on the mountian, against French multi-time world champion Loic Bruni. Bruni on a downhill bike and Pidcock on a road bike to see who could make it down the mountain fastest. This one is a fair bit more exciting to watch, in our opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock has won a few big races in his day. The Olympic cross country mountain bike race,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-888494","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\/888494","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=888494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}