{"id":614836,"date":"2026-06-01T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614836\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:11:08","slug":"coventry-man-76-begins-5000-mile-charity-cycle-around-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614836\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry man, 76, begins 5,000-mile charity cycle around Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 76-year-old man has set off on a 5,000-mile (8,000km) bike ride around the coast of Great Britain to raise money for charity and inspire others to &#8220;stay fit and healthy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norman Brown, a grandad-of-four from Coventry, is bike-packing for the next two months, to raise money for charities Prostate Cancer UK and The Myton Hospices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He aims to complete the coastal route, heading to Land&#8217;s End before travelling up the west coast and finishing back at his starting point in Exmouth, in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown, who began his challenge on Tuesday, said he had found the first couple of days &#8220;extremely challenging&#8221;, but it was what he had &#8220;set himself up for&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 76-year-old man has set off on a 5,000-mile (8,000km) bike ride around the coast of Great Britain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614836","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\/614836","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=614836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}