\n The British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Bike Ride took place today (June 21) and saw Brighton’s streets filled with those making the journey from Clapham Common to Madeira Drive.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Covering a distance of 54 miles, or a shorter 20.5-mile route starting from Ardingly Showground, participants taking part raise funds for a variety of charitable organisations.\n<\/p>\n
\n A group of cyclists make their way past Brighton Pavillion (Image: Simon Dack)\n<\/p>\n
\n The route passes through Surrey, before riders journey through Turners Hill, Ardingly, and over the dreaded Ditchling Beacon, finally making their way down to the seafront.\n<\/p>\n
\n Among this year’s participants was Mark Carrdy, who took part in the ride with his family to mark Father’s Day.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mark Carrdy (third from left) took part in the ride with his family (Image: The Argus)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Carrdy said: “My daughter, my wife, my son, we all did it together. A real family day out.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: “The Beacon was hot, very hot, and obviously very steep.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But it was great, a great atmosphere, nice people and a good buzz.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s lovely to see everyone out and having a good time and doing something helpful.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A group of cyclists close to completing the 54 mile journey (Image: Simon Dack)\n<\/p>\n
\n Many of the riders also took part with work colleagues.\n<\/p>\n
\n Debby Ethridge cycled the route with colleagues from company Projective Group, to raise money for The Felix Project.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Ethridge said: “The Felix Project is our company charity partner.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They redistribute food waste and give meals to those in need in London, and they do a really amazing job.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The hardest bit was definitely Ditchling Beacon, it’s a bit of\u00a0a struggle to make it all the way up.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The best bit was coming down; there was just such elation, you could see the sea.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Debby Ethridge took part with work colleagues for charity The Felix Project (Image: The Argus)\n<\/p>\n
\n She added that she was planning to have a beer on the beach and jump in the sea to celebrate.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n For some riders, the event was simply a chance to prove they could do it, while supporting a\u00a0good cause.\n<\/p>\n
\n Joshua Tomkins wanted to challenge himself (Image: The Argus)\n<\/p>\n
\n Joshua Tomkins said: “I wanted to challenge myself.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’ve done this kind of distance before but I wanted to treat it like a race. It’s a cool atmosphere as well, there’s so many people, it’s very good fun.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The best bit was coming down into Brighton, flying down that last hill.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He said that he was hoping to finish with some food and a dip in the sea, adding “I’m starving”.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Bike Ride took place today (June 21) and saw Brighton’s streets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651015","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\/651015","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=651015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}