{"id":2832,"date":"2026-04-05T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:18:14","slug":"pit-ponies-100-km-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"Pit Ponies 100 km 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">27\/09\/25<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Second go of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=1810\">this one<\/a>, although the route has changed quite a bit.  A trip to the seaside at Seaton Carew and then the majority of the remainder was on great cycle tracks on old railway lines.  No coincidence that it was held on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=2571\" target=\"_blank\">200th birthday of the railway<\/a>.  Although it&#8217;s a shame we have lost some of these train lines, they do make excellent routes for cycling and walking.  Make sure you have a bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" data-id=\"2833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"A bike resting on a seawall with a beach and sea in the distance\" class=\"wp-image-2833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-1536x1143.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-690x514.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763-980x729.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8763.jpg 1979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seaton Carew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"353\" data-id=\"2836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-1024x353.jpg\" alt=\"Beach at Seaton Carew\" class=\"wp-image-2836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-1024x353.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-1536x529.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-2048x706.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-690x238.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8764-1-980x338.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"2835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Platform at the disused railway station of Thorpe Thewles\" class=\"wp-image-2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_8769.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Either this, or Middleton One Row, wins placename of the ride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>107 km, 7 hrs 15 mins<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"804\" data-id=\"2838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the route\" class=\"wp-image-2838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route.jpg 837w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/route-690x663.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Garmin malfunction early on, in reality the start and finish were at the same place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27\/09\/25 Second go of this one, although the route has changed quite a bit. A trip to the seaside at Seaton Carew and then the majority of the remainder was on great cycle tracks on old railway lines. No coincidence that it was held on the 200th birthday of the railway. Although it&#8217;s a shame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audax","category-audax-from-train-stations","category-cycling","category-sloeadventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}