{"id":120585,"date":"2025-09-07T10:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120585\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:34:03","slug":"sheffield-friends-with-cancer-take-on-sir-chris-hoy-cycle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120585\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield friends with cancer take on Sir Chris Hoy cycle race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms McClean is the more keen cyclist, having picked up the hobby during the London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a real joy to get the bike out and get out in the Peak District again,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were times I never thought the day would come,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Mr Waldock said he would be getting rid of his bicycle once the event was over and returning to his first love \u2013 running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After this event I&#8217;m selling the bike. I&#8217;m not doing it again. I don&#8217;t enjoy the bike, to be honest with you,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Waldock said he and his bike &#8220;don&#8217;t like each other much, but we accommodate each other&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So, unless Fran persuades me and gets me an entry for next year, that bike is going afterwards. But let&#8217;s see what Sunday brings first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms McClean is the more keen cyclist, having picked up the hobby during the London 2012 Olympics. &#8220;It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}