{"id":18958,"date":"2025-07-23T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18958\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:10:07","slug":"mountain-biker-completes-epic-bid-to-ride-down-all-282-munros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18958\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain biker completes epic bid to ride down all 282 Munros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean said he enjoyed putting himself &#8220;in the pain cave&#8221; and just focused on putting one foot in front of the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The father-of-two said the hardest part of his mission was the logistics and the toll it took on family life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I could be up and down a Munro in sub-four hours, but even then there was likely to be a three-hour drive before and a three-hour drive after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So even the shortest days were still 12,14 or 16 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean was supported during one of the climbs by Paul Tattersall, who was the first man to complete the challenge in just 81 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had a few more adventures on his radar but had been warned by his wife not to take on anything as extreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean said he enjoyed putting himself &#8220;in the pain cave&#8221; and just focused on putting one foot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958","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=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}