She said she had enjoyed sport as a child and wanted all children to be able to try it, which was why she was taking part in the challenge.<\/p>\n
“I think everybody said it was going to be an epic challenge, but if you want people to donate and help make a difference, you’ve got to try and do something big,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Sport Relief is just fantastic. Even me being able to say yes to this challenge is because I got to do sport when I was a child and I want every child to have the opportunity to be able to do sport.<\/p>\n
“They support such great projects, youth work and community centres and I’ve seen that work first-hand and it really does change people’s lives.<\/p>\n
“When I was younger, I relied on those places and it enabled me to have a dream to become a footballer.”<\/p>\n
As well as visiting Aston Villa, she will stop at Everton, Man City and grassroots community team Bishop Auckland FC Ladies.<\/p>\n
“There’s been some lovely moments, the crowds and the posters,” she added.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been a bit overwhelmed. It’s really got us through.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re about 75 miles (120km) in now so the bike seat’s starting to hurt a little bit, but honestly the support has been amazing and all for Sport Relief which is incredible.”<\/p>\n
Her challenge will end on Friday with a 28-mile (45km) marathon finish to the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said she had enjoyed sport as a child and wanted all children to be able to try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628215","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\/628215","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=628215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}