{"id":647824,"date":"2026-06-19T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:18:11","slug":"hebridean-cyclist-sets-new-record-for-1000-mile-trans-alba-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647824\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebridean cyclist sets new record for 1,000-mile Trans Alba Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Hebridean cyclist has smashed the women&#8217;s record for completing Scotland&#8217;s Trans Alba Race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christina MacKenzie, from Lewis, set a new time of four days, 10 hours and 52 minutes &#8211; a day faster than the previous record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The race covered more than 1,000 miles, involved four ferry trips and a total of 66,000ft of climbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 49-year-old, who finished sixth overall, said: &#8220;I&#8217;m tired and sore, but delighted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hebridean cyclist has smashed the women&#8217;s record for completing Scotland&#8217;s Trans Alba Race. Christina MacKenzie, from Lewis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647824","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\/647824","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=647824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}