{"id":14015,"date":"2021-04-13T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordsandimages.battleface.com\/?p=14015"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:48:49","slug":"cyclist-kate-leeming-faces-rebel-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/cyclist-kate-leeming-faces-rebel-gunfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambush! Cyclist Kate Leeming faces rebel gunfire crossing Africa by bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approx read: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h3 id=\"in-this-episode-of-when-it-hit\">In this episode of When It Hits The Fan we chat to Kate Leeming. Kate is a record-breaking long-distance cyclist from Melbourne, Australia.<\/h3>\n<p>In 2010, she became the first person to cycle an unbroken line from Africa&#8217;s most westerly point to its most easterly point. The expedition, known as Breaking the Cycle, took in 22,000km of the continent&#8217;s toughest terrain &#8211; as well as an ambush from Ninja rebels in Congo-Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ambush! Cyclist faces rebel gunfire crossing Africa by bike | Kate Leeming\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjwSum5mZ0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14022\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordsandimages.battleface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky..jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14022 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wordsandimages.battleface.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky..jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-696x479.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-611x420.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Securing-an-area-just-after-the-shooting-incident-ROC-Image-Z-Kratky.-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Securing an area just after the shooting incident, ROC, Image Z Kratky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow Kate:<\/p>\n<h5 id=\"twitter\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leeming_kate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 id=\"instagram\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/leeming_kate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AfriFu1Gft\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/kate-leeming-breaking-the-cycle\/\">Kate Leeming | Breaking the Cycle<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Kate Leeming | Breaking the Cycle&#8221; &#8212; battleface\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/kate-leeming-breaking-the-cycle\/embed\/#?secret=2mlauFnfvF#?secret=AfriFu1Gft\" data-secret=\"AfriFu1Gft\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of When It Hits The Fan we chat to Kate Leeming. 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The expedition, known as Breaking the Cycle, took in 22,000km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":14024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1659],"tags":[1366,1218,1219,1383],"class_list":["post-14015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-when-it-hits-the-fan-podcast","tag-battleface-podcast","tag-breaking-the-cycle","tag-kate-leeming","tag-when-it-hits-the-fan-podcast","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14015"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14023,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions\/14023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleface.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}