\n Neil Dalgleish, who created Tour o the Borders and sister event Wee Touro, is stepping back after 14 years to focus on other projects in his life.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I’m approaching retirement age and there’s a few other bits and pieces I want to do in my career before I retire completely.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I felt like now was a good time to hand it on to somebody else.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Touro was founded in 2012 and has since gone on to become one of the UK’s premier road cycling events.\n<\/p>\n
\n The main Tour o the Borders starts in Peebles and sees cyclists go out into Tweeddale West and down to Dumfries and Galloway.\n<\/p>\n
\n They then head back into the Borders and travel back to Peebles. Wee Touro is held the previous day and is open to cyclists of all ages.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Dalgleish praised the region\u2019s cycling potential and the role of the event in promoting it.\n<\/p>\n
\n He continued: “I think the south of Scotland is undeniably a fantastic place for cycling.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s famous for mountain biking, but it should also be famous for road cycling and hopefully Tour de France will help with that.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s been great to see Tour of the Borders provide a platform for showing off how good the south of Scotland and Scottish Borders are for road cycling.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He credited the community and landscape for the event\u2019s continued success.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Dalgleish said: “We have more than a hundred volunteers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s a massive organisation to make that event happen.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But the combination of a fantastic community, brilliant roads, beautiful scenery, and for a lot of people it’s a real surprise.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Posting on social media, he thanked fellow organisers and participants.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “A huge thanks to everyone who has helped, worked at or ridden this event over the years.”\n<\/p>\n
\n With next year marking his first opportunity to ride the route, Mr Dalgleish is enthusiastic about the change.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I can’t wait to ride it. You know, every year I’ve been wishing it was me.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’m really looking forward to it and also just like everybody else who signs up for these things, it’s a really great reason to make yourself get out there, get fit and look after yourself.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Tour O The Borders will continue next year and beyond, with organisation passing to Paul McGreal, from Durty Events.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Dalgleish added: “The event is in excellent hands and much of the team currently producing it will continue in their roles.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I\u2019ll hopefully see lots of you on the start line next September, and this time I won\u2019t be wearing hi-vis and clutching a radio to my face.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Dalgleish, who created Tour o the Borders and sister event Wee Touro, is stepping back after 14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816251","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\/816251","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=816251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}