{"id":588618,"date":"2026-05-17T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:40:07","slug":"somerset-couple-quit-jobs-to-start-two-year-cycle-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588618\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset couple quit jobs to start two-year cycle adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A couple who quit their jobs to learn &#8220;how to communicate and work together better&#8221;, will soon begin cycling through 15 different countries for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jonas Pollard and Margaux Dumas from Bath, Somerset, will embark on the 20,500 mile (33,000km) journey from Alaska to Argentina on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They hope to raise \u00a333,000 for World Bicycle Relief and the Sue Ryder Charity, who cared for Pollard&#8217;s mother before her death in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pollard said: &#8220;With this challenge, I wanted to give something back and to the nurses there [at the hospice] &#8211; it&#8217;s an incredible space.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple who quit their jobs to learn &#8220;how to communicate and work together better&#8221;, will soon begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588618","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\/588618","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=588618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}