{"id":783294,"date":"2026-09-26T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783294\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:04:10","slug":"beery-bikers-cycle-from-northamptonshire-to-spain-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783294\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beery bikers&#8217; cycle from Northamptonshire to Spain for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair started planning their bike ride last year, and at the time had planned for Annison&#8217;s wife, Diane, and Martin&#8217;s wife, Catherine to meet them in Spain at the end of their trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, when Diane passed away in December from a rare aggressive sarcoma cancer of the uterus, the two friends both retired early and pursued the trip in her memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin, whose mum died from a heart attack last year, said: &#8220;We came up with the phrase The Beery Bikers&#8230; we&#8217;re really trying to turn something that&#8217;s not so positive, into a bit of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They set off on 27 August from The Crown Inn in West Haddon and since then the cyclists have raised \u00a37,500 so far, with a goal of \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin, 58, said: &#8220;The support we&#8217;ve got from strangers and meeting people along the way has been fantastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Biking up to seven hours a day, the terrain proved to be &#8220;quite a challenge&#8221; according to his sidekick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During their adventures, which saw them overcoming nearly 17,000 ft (5,182m) of hills and mountains on the way, they each burned more than 55,000 calories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair started planning their bike ride last year, and at the time had planned for Annison&#8217;s wife,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783294","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\/783294","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=783294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}