{"id":572270,"date":"2026-05-08T03:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:33:17","slug":"lake-district-pub-hosts-party-as-over-2000-cyclists-pass-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572270\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake District pub hosts party as over 2000 cyclists pass by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Fred Whitton Challenge is due to return on Sunday as participants take on the 112-mile route through the Lake District.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For 2026, the challenge is featuring &#8216;The Struggle&#8217; climb, which will allow The Kirkstone Pass Inn near Ambleside to cheer on those involved &#8211; and potentially give them a much-needed break.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The inn team said: &#8220;Join us for the &#8216;Pitstop Party&#8217; at the top of the mighty Struggle as over 2,000 cyclists will be passing our door.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We have live music, hecklers, coffee, cake and the biggest chair we could find if you need to rest your weary legs.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fun will begin from 6am on Sunday morning to ensure that the cyclists get an extra boost to push through one of the most difficult parts of the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fred Whitton Challenge is due to return on Sunday as participants take on the 112-mile route through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572270","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\/572270","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=572270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}