Mark Donovan, from Penruddock near Penrith, is hoping to ride his second Tour de France having first done so in 2021.<\/p>\n
Once a school pupil in Keswick, he said it would be “pretty special” to ride in such a familiar location as part of the world’s most famous race.<\/p>\n
“It’s definitely a bit too early to say [if I’ll be taking part]. <\/p>\n
“I think we’ll wait until the end of this season and then we can start to think about next year, but I’ve been daydreaming about it a little bit – it would be amazing.”<\/p>\n
Donovan said it was the “biggest thing” he could do as a pro cyclist: “It’s the pinnacle of the sport.<\/p>\n
“I’ve grown up riding these roads and I’ve always had a soft spot for them. <\/p>\n
“Maybe I’m a bit biased, but I do still think, on a good summer’s day, there’s arguably no better roads in the world than the Lakes to ride your bike.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Donovan, from Penruddock near Penrith, is hoping to ride his second Tour de France having first done…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669435","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\/669435","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=669435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}