{"id":121598,"date":"2025-09-07T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121598\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:53:09","slug":"long-distance-cyclist-joins-sir-chris-hoy-tour-de-4-charity-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121598\/","title":{"rendered":"Long distance cyclist joins Sir Chris Hoy Tour de 4 charity ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Shepherd, who is an NHS scientific support officer at Addenbrooke&#8217;s Hospital in Cambridge, is raising money for the WISHH Charity, which helps patients at the cancer unit in Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said Ms Shepherd&#8217;s dad, who is a consultant clinical scientist at Hull Royal Infirmary, would &#8220;be with them in spirit&#8221; during the ride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Shepherd said stomach cancer had &#8220;struck dad out of the blue in September 2023&#8221; and, despite several operations, &#8220;he&#8217;s still battling on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the family&#8217;s cycle challenge was &#8220;our quest to give back&#8221; and that it would be &#8220;the biggest physical challenge I&#8217;ve taken on my own to date&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Whitton of the WISHH Charity said: &#8220;We are immensely proud by the courage and resilience shown by the whole family and Ella&#8217;s decision to carry on with the challenge and Chris Hoy&#8217;s Tour De 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their determination is a true reflection of their strength and is an inspiration to us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Shepherd, who is an NHS scientific support officer at Addenbrooke&#8217;s Hospital in Cambridge, is raising money for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-121598","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\/121598","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=121598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}