{"id":1730,"date":"2013-04-29T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2013-04-29T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:02:37","slug":"lands-end-to-john-ogroats-940-miles-by-bike-in-6-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Lands End to John o&#8217;Groats (940 miles)&#8230; by bike&#8230;. in 6 days!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D1730&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jonathan-Goldsmith-2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1731 alignright\" alt=\"Jonathan Goldsmith 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jonathan-Goldsmith-2013-179x300.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jonathan-Goldsmith-2013-179x300.jpg 179w, http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jonathan-Goldsmith-2013-613x1024.jpg 613w, http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jonathan-Goldsmith-2013.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>On the 27th April, Jonathan Goldsmith set off from Lands End to travel the 940 miles to John o&#8217;Groats by bike, aiming to do the trip in just 6 days (!) to raise money for Friends of Alalay. Unfortunately, we have just heard that he has had to abandon his ride on day 3, having sustained a knee injury whilst getting out of the\u00c2 way of a careless\u00c2 driver somewhere in Cheshire. He is &#8220;terribly disappointed but vows to complete the rest of the journey, from Alderley Edge to\u00c2 John o&#8217;Groats, in the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please do still sponsor Jonathan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Jonathan-Goldsmith1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and find out more about his reasons for supporting Alalay below (taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latafoundation.org\/newsholder\/fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\">The LATA Foundation<\/a> website)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jonathan\u00c2 \u00c2 (Audley Latin America) is raising funds to help us support street children\u00c2 in Bolivia. He set off\u00c2 from Lands End\u00c2 on 27 April, endeavouring to\u00c2 cycle 940 miles in just 6 days.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago Jonathan and his brother Paddy\u00c2 cycled the journey in 12 days.\u00c2 \u00c2 They camped all the way in what Jonathan describes as one of the most amazing fortnights of his life. When they reached the finishing point they were feeling pretty pleased with themselves until two other guys turned up saying they had done it in 6 days. From that day on Jonathan vowed that he would match it.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan\u00c2 and his wife travelled through Bolivia some years ago and were both awestruck by its beauty and\u00c2 its people.\u00c2 Working\u00c2 for Audley Latin America he has\u00c2 been following the work of the LATA Foundation with interest and\u00c2 with two children of his own (Ben and Phoebe) he was keen to support a project involving children.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th April, Jonathan Goldsmith set off from Lands End to travel the 940 miles to John o&#8217;Groats by bike, aiming to do the trip in just 6 days (!) to raise money for Friends of Alalay. Unfortunately, we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}