{"id":252541,"date":"2026-07-26T20:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:35:16","slug":"ben-to-the-shore-bike-tour-rides-from-philly-to-atlantic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252541\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben to the Shore bike tour rides from Philly to Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people gathered before sunrise Sunday to cheer on cyclists departing from Philadelphia\u2019s Ben Franklin Bridge to begin a 65-mile charity bike ride to Atlantic City.\n<\/p>\n<p>The annual Ben to the Shore bike tour is the flagship fundraiser for Families Behind the Badge, a children\u2019s foundation that raises money for loved ones of first responders who have fallen or been injured in the line of duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jack Costello, associate director of Families Behind the Badge, said this year\u2019s tour, as always, was a labor of love.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people who have spent months training for this,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is an awesome sight to see so many people who want to provide support to the first-responder community.\u201d<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-748449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ben-to-the-shore-bike-ride-2026-1.jpg\" alt=\"Opening remarks given onstage at the ride\" width=\"2401\" height=\"1350\"  \/>Opening remarks began onstage at 6:30 a.m. to begin the tour at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, 2026. (Chelsea Lubbe\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>Costello\u2019s father survived a shooting while serving in the Philadelphia Police Department and was inspired by the idea of supporting families who have gone through similar circumstances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst responders see things every day, and I never thought about it until I got to learn some inside baseball,\u201d said Bob White, the foundation\u2019s board president. \u201cSo to combine that with their normal family life and the stress, it is a lot.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[90230,2350,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-252541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bicycling","tag-fundraiser","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}