{"id":30692,"date":"2025-07-29T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30692\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:55:08","slug":"berkshire-teenager-set-to-pedal-2600-miles-for-dorset-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30692\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire teenager set to pedal 2,600 miles for Dorset charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Dunlop said: &#8220;I was a bit nervous beforehand &#8211; worried if I was fit enough and if the self navigating would go OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now, I&#8217;ve got going it feels brilliant and I&#8217;m loving some of the hills. They don&#8217;t seem as bad as they looked on the route planner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The hardest bit so far is eating enough food, as I need 4,000-plus calories a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My mother is driving the back up van and we try and meet every 20 miles for snacks and water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother, Christina Dunlop, said she was supportive of his gap year plans but encouraged him to do something for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Little did we know he&#8217;d come up with an event that would involve serious logistical plotting and planning and a fitness regime,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The ironic thing is that Tom has dyspraxia and couldn&#8217;t ride a bike until he was 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so very proud of what he is aiming to achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Dunlop said: &#8220;I was a bit nervous beforehand &#8211; worried if I was fit enough and if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-30692","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\/30692","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=30692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}