{"id":147096,"date":"2025-09-19T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147096\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:14:06","slug":"bedford-and-milton-keynes-cyclists-gear-up-for-final-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147096\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford and Milton Keynes cyclists gear up for final challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Saenger, from Biddenham in Bedfordshire, will take part with teammates Tim O&#8217;Leary, Jon Ross and Lawrence O&#8217;Leary, to raise funds for Bedford-based Food Etc and AMMF, a bile duct cancer charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Extra Miles Challenges has so far raised about \u00a31.9m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grandfather Mr Saenger said he had taken part in the event for 18 out if its 22 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had such great memories,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every year has been a highlight; the friendships we&#8217;ve made and the comradery make it so special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is the last bang. On one hand I&#8217;m really excited as we&#8217;ll make this one particularly special but it&#8217;s also sad that it&#8217;s come to the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Saenger, from Biddenham in Bedfordshire, will take part with teammates Tim O&#8217;Leary, Jon Ross and Lawrence O&#8217;Leary,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-147096","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\/147096","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=147096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}