{"id":1189344,"date":"2026-09-06T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189344\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:55:16","slug":"tour-of-britain-and-tour-o-the-borders-hit-peebles-and-earlston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189344\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain and Tour O The Borders hit Peebles and Earlston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tour O The Borders is one of only three closed-road cycling sportives in the UK, and boasts &#8220;a reputation for an excellent course and stunning scenery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 2,000 riders are expected to take part in what is being billed as the last big road cycling event in the region before the Tour de France visits next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Dalgleish of organisers Hillside Outside said they had done everything possible to ensure it ran as smoothly as possible.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know &#8216;Touro&#8217; causes some disruption but we&#8217;ve worked hard to reduce the inconvenience,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The event brings a huge amount of money and cycling reputation to the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been shouting about how good the cycling is here for a long time now, and it&#8217;s great to see so many people travelling to take part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The icing on the cake is the Tour de France coming next year \u2013 you can&#8217;t get a better endorsement for the Borders than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tour O The Borders is one of only three closed-road cycling sportives in the UK, and boasts &#8220;a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1189344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117223261550589697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}