{"id":619714,"date":"2026-06-03T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:12:09","slug":"stoke-on-trent-man-cycles-180-miles-in-memory-of-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/619714\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke-on-Trent man cycles 180 miles in memory of best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Copestake said the ride, completed over five days, was physically and emotionally demanding, with difficult weather conditions and steep sections along the route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was tough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The weather conditions were just changing hourly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that the fourth day of the challenge was particularly gruelling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew that was going to be the hardest day but about five miles up bank I wasn&#8217;t just pushing the bike, I was dragging it up. It was the weight on the bike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was times where I thought my body can&#8217;t take anymore,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described one particularly emotional moment on Monday when he stopped off at a pub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every emotion you can imagine just came out,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His wife Hailey said she was &#8220;really proud&#8221; of what Copestake had achieved in memory of his &#8220;one and only true best friend&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copestake said the ride, completed over five days, was physically and emotionally demanding, with difficult weather conditions and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-619714","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\/619714","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=619714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}