{"id":369202,"date":"2026-01-14T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:15:15","slug":"in-pictures-scotlands-snowy-24-hour-mountain-bike-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369202\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Scotland&#8217;s snowy 24-hour mountain bike race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deep snow brought an added challenge to the weekend&#8217;s gruelling Strathpuffer 24-hour mountain bike race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event near Strathpeffer in the Highlands involves laps of an eight mile (12.5km) route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cyclists compete solo, in pairs or teams of four and about 17 hours of the competition is held in darkness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photographer Paul Campbell captured some of the action in Contin Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep snow brought an added challenge to the weekend&#8217;s gruelling Strathpuffer 24-hour mountain bike race. The event near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-369202","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\/369202","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=369202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}