{"id":7018,"date":"2012-07-29T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2012-07-29T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T21:33:45","slug":"big-750-mile-bike-ride-for-charity-and-for-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7018","title":{"rendered":"Big 750 Mile Bike Ride for Charity and for Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Helen for this story &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12072901.jpg\" alt=\"CMA Bike Ride\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;My husband (from Abingdon) and brother-in-law are undertaking a 750-mile bike ride in memory of their Dad. They are raising funds for the Cardiomyopathy Association (CMA) &#8211; a charity that supports sufferers of degenerative heart disease and their families &#8211; as well as commemorating their father (who died from cardiomyopathy aged 64 in December) by passing through his favourite places and scattering his ashes in places of particular significance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12072902.jpg\" alt=\"CMA Bike Ride\" \/><br \/>\nThey have taken along their Dad&#8217;s restored 1956 split screen Morris Minor as their &#8216;support vehicle&#8217; (although travelling 750 miles in that will be a feat in itself!).<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the ride is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>23rd July Glencoe to Balloch<br \/>\n24th July Balloch to Ayr<br \/>\n25th July Ayr to Annan<br \/>\n26th July Annan to Middleton-in-Teesdale<br \/>\n27th July Middleton-in-Teesdale to Threshfield<br \/>\n28th July Thresfield to Holmfirth<br \/>\n29th July Holmfirth toTutbury nr Burton upon Trent<br \/>\n30th July Tutbury to Shrawley nr Droitwich<br \/>\n31st July Shrawley to Stow-on-the-Wold<br \/>\n1st August Stow-on-the-Wold to Marlborough (<strong>passing through Abingdon en route!<\/strong>)<br \/>\n2nd August Marlborough to Shaftesbury<br \/>\n3rd August Shaftesbury to Bournemouth<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the ride and all its ups and downs on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130801003044\/http:\/\/www.cmabikeride.com:80\/\">CMA Bike Ride blog<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Helen for this story &#8230; &#8220;My husband (from Abingdon) and brother-in-law are undertaking a 750-mile bike ride in memory of their Dad. They are raising funds for the Cardiomyopathy Association (CMA) &#8211; a charity that supports sufferers of degenerative heart disease and their families &#8211; as well as commemorating their father (who died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}