{"id":4436,"date":"2014-12-20T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T21:25:04","slug":"ms-150-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/ms-150-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MS 150 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m riding in the MS 150<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0in 2015. It’ll be my third\u00c2\u00a0year participating in the event. I blogged about it last year<\/a> and you can view a set of photos from 2013<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 and 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n

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MS 150 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re unfamiliar with the event, it’s a 150 mile bike ride from Houston to Austin over two days to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis. My company<\/a> has sponsored this event for the past five years. It took me two years to work up the nerve\u00c2\u00a0to ride a bike from Houston to Austin after not touching a bike for more than 15 years and not doing much exercising for several years. I needed something to kick me in the butt. This certainly did it and it has really paid off. Since starting to train for last year’s ride in January of 2013, I’ve ridden 2938\u00c2\u00a0miles (1,681 this year so far). I use\u00c2\u00a0Strava<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to keep track of rides. The first day is roughly\u00c2\u00a086\u00c2\u00a0miles and the second day is\u00c2\u00a067. In 2014, I managed to take a video<\/a> through one of the small towns, Fayetteville, where everyone comes out to celebrate and encourage the riders (here’s a shot of me taking the video<\/a>). Hopefully this year, I’ll remember to shoot in landscape and not portrait. I also took the challenge ride on the second day which brings you through Bastrop State Park<\/a>. My goal this year is to do all of that again and ride 100 miles the first day.<\/p>\n

You can donate via\u00c2\u00a0my participant page<\/a>. Any little bit helps and is much appreciated. Each rider has to reach a minimum fundraising goal of $400 prior to the event. This year, the ride is on April 18th and 19th and they’ve moved up the deadline for fundraising.<\/p>\n

Since getting a bike for our oldest this past\u00c2\u00a0January, he’s been\u00c2\u00a0riding with me when he can. My hope is to get the entire family involved in one way or another so we can bike around Austin. The city has really added a lot of bike lanes in the past year.<\/p>\n

We typically do at least one supported training ride in the lead up to the MS 150.\u00c2\u00a0I haven’t yet chosen which rides I will do this year, but it’ll likely be the LBJ 100<\/a>. I also send e-mail updates to donors as the ride gets closer and during the ride itself.<\/p>\n

Thanks for supporting an event that makes a difference in the lives of those with multiple sclerosis and for encouraging something that has given back so much to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m riding in the MS 150\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0in 2015. It’ll be my third\u00c2\u00a0year participating in the event. I blogged about it last year and you can view a set of photos from 2013\u00c2\u00a0 and 2014. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, it’s a 150 mile bike ride from Houston to Austin over two days to raise money […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"MS 150 2015","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-sports","category-5-id","category-13-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-19y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}