{"id":708431,"date":"2026-07-24T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:22:09","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-as-gran-fondo-returns-with-off-road-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708431\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know as Gran Fondo returns with off-road challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The flagship Gran Fondo Gravel and Gran Fondo XC MTB races take place on Sunday, with riders setting off from Ramsey at 09:30 BST before finishing about 60 miles (100km) later in Port Erin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The point-to-point route takes competitors to the island&#8217;s northern tip before heading south through farmland, wetlands, moorland, forests and coastal scenery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It features 30 designated off-road and C-road sectors, including Ballacorey Farm, The Curraghs, The Kella, Ballacarnane Farm, Archallagan Plantation and Eary Cushlin, before a final climb over Bradda Head and a technical descent into Port Erin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers described it as &#8220;a route shaped by the island itself&#8221;, rather than adapting an existing road course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flagship Gran Fondo Gravel and Gran Fondo XC MTB races take place on Sunday, with riders setting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708431","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\/708431","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=708431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}