{"id":731483,"date":"2026-08-08T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731483\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:36:18","slug":"man-completes-painful-penny-farthing-challenge-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731483\/","title":{"rendered":"Man completes &#8216;painful&#8217; penny farthing challenge in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have set the records for the first time, so it&#8217;s open for anyone to have a go at, but after my experience last night I probably would not recommend trying it,&#8221; Woodward told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;My legs felt like jelly. I probably will not want to do that again, to be honest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Penny Farthing Club, which was founded in 2013, runs training courses, social and charity rides, track racing, Victorian costume events, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjeg787epxqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international penny farthing polo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its members already hold <a href=\"https:\/\/pennyfarthingworldrecords.com\/present-world-records\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several Guinness World Records, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Oakley, CEO and co-founder of Keep Me Breathing, whose son Casper has CCHS, said: &#8220;We are enormously grateful to the Penny Farthing Club and every rider taking on these incredible challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called the &#8220;skill, stamina and determination&#8221; required &#8220;extraordinary&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have set the records for the first time, so it&#8217;s open for anyone to have a go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731483","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\/731483","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=731483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}