An 83-year-old man is cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats in a bid to become the fastest octogenarian to complete the route.<\/p>\n
Eddie McGourley, of Chester-le-Street, County Durham, decided to take on the record attempt after a trip to the library, where he picked up a copy of the Guinness World Records book.<\/p>\n
He is raising money for St Cuthbert’s Hospice in memory of his wife Winifred and hopes to complete the journey in 10 days and get to John O’Groats by 8 July. <\/p>\n
Asked what his wife – who died three years ago – would have thought of the attempt, he said: “She would have been chuffed. When I used to race, she was my manager – I used to listen to her.”<\/p>\n
In his youth, he was a successful competitive cyclist and was a North East champion three times.<\/p>\n
A support team of five people is helping him along the route, including a younger friend riding alongside him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 83-year-old man is cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats in a bid to become the fastest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673323","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\/673323","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=673323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}