{"id":48,"date":"2016-09-09T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/accommodation-hospitality\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T08:06:23","slug":"ride-across-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/2016\/09\/09\/ride-across-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Across Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we'll welcome over 780 cyclists taking part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideacrossbritain.com\/\">Deloitte Ride Across Britain<\/a>\u00a0as they make\u00a0their way along the 980\u00a0mile route from Land's End to John O'Groats.<\/p>\n<p>Riders, support staff and organisers will get to Bath on Sunday, having completed the 110 mile\u00a0stage from Okehampton in Devon,\u00a0and we'll be\u00a0their home for the night.<\/p>\n<p>This is the final\u00a0big event of our commercial summer business and has contributed to us bringing in\u00a0over \u00a31 million during\u00a0the last three months.<\/p>\n<p>We can't wait to welcome them all and provide them with the rest and relaxation they'll need\u00a0by the time they pedal in to campus. We'll be back with photos and we'll tell you how it all went next week.<\/p>\n<p>The riders are not professional, which makes the distances they ride even more impressive. This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideacrossbritain.com\/is-rab-for-me\/\">an event for anyone and everyone<\/a>. It is possible to\u00a0take part in the whole thing, or just certain stages. If you know somebody taking part, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideacrossbritain.com\/tracking\/\">follow the route and progress of the riders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After we wave the riders off on Monday morning, when\u00a0they set off on the 99 mile journey to\u00a0Ludlow, our attention will immediately turn to preparing for the arrival of our new students.<\/p>\n<p>More on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we'll welcome over 780 cyclists taking part in the Deloitte Ride Across Britain\u00a0as they make\u00a0their way along the 980\u00a0mile route from Land's End to John O'Groats. Riders, support staff and organisers will get to Bath on Sunday, having...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodation","category-events","category-special-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/campus-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}