{"id":186581,"date":"2025-10-08T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186581\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:57:07","slug":"aberdeen-university-friends-to-finish-bike-ride-started-in-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186581\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen University friends to finish bike ride started in 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie, who worked in corporate finance and lives in Balfron, near Stirling, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s quite a prospect, but an exciting and emotional one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are in-training to get ready, but cycling long distances daily and camping each night for weeks is a very different prospect at the age of 62, than it was as 22-year-olds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie&#8217;s son Hector died from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;More research is needed to identify the causes and ways to prevent SUDEP deaths. Donations will be split evenly between both charities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former BBC journalist Craig Swan, who lives in Grantown on Spey in the Highlands,  said like many people all three had been affected by deaths of loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Life can be hard. This is an opportunity for all of us to finish what we started 40 years ago, and at the same time help causes very close to our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The friends will cycle south along the whole length of a road called Carretera Austral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They hope to reach Villa O&#8217;Higgins, a small town in southern Chile, next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie, who worked in corporate finance and lives in Balfron, near Stirling, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s quite a prospect, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-186581","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\/186581","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=186581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}