{"id":522896,"date":"2026-04-10T07:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:07:15","slug":"tunstall-mans-mount-fuji-cycle-challenge-to-mark-three-years-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522896\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunstall man&#8217;s Mount Fuji cycle challenge to mark three years sober"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A recovering alcoholic is preparing to mark three years sober by cycling up Mount Fuji in Japan later this year and also to promote mental health support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Father-of-two Phil James is taking on the challenge, the latest in a series of extreme cycling expeditions, as he said they gave him a focus away from drinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2knwew1jj0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pedalled his way up Vesuvius last year<\/a>, having previously taken on Snowdon to raise money for mental health charities Mind and Men And Their Emotions (MATE) as well as trying to show to people experiencing a mental health crisis that there was hope for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, from Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, said he found cycling was an effective way to avoid alcohol since going sober in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recovering alcoholic is preparing to mark three years sober by cycling up Mount Fuji in Japan later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522896","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\/522896","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=522896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}