{"id":336236,"date":"2025-12-26T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336236\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:42:06","slug":"cycling-gave-leicester-man-new-purpose-after-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336236\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling gave Leicester man &#8216;new purpose&#8217; after overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Mr Wragg&#8217;s trip has not been all smooth sailing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He crashed after only 12 days, damaging his bike as he hit a tree stump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fortunately, the cyclist was uninjured, but he had to return to the UK to get a replacement frame before continuing the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Wragg said he wanted his story and the trip to show how cycling and the outdoors can help mental health. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My aim is to inspire people to get out a lot more, go see the world and travel and reap the benefits of being on a bicycle,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That comes with the benefits of cycling for mental health as well, so it all ties itself in together really.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Mr Wragg&#8217;s trip has not been all smooth sailing. He crashed after only 12 days, damaging his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-336236","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\/336236","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=336236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}