This year’s MS Ride was 3 fun filled days, beginning with setting up the team tent in the afternoon and then about 20 people from the St. Timothy's Episcopal Church SkiSE team joining for dinner Friday night at our one of our sponsors, Finnigan's Wake. We were the first to use the newly open section and were quite impressed.
Fun continued on Saturday with our team gathering for the team photos around 7:30 and then hopping on our bikes with almost 1700 people to begin riding. Our Team had riders who rode anywhere between 25-50 miles on Saturday and everyone rode 50 miles on Sunday. They weather was grey with occasional rain but the temperature was perfect for riding. Lunch was great, the bands were great, the beer was great and most of all the friendships we made were great. We all hung around for most of the afternoon on Saturday eating, drinking and having fun and getting our massages from Teresa.
On Sunday we did it all again, albeit a little slower. It was pretty windy but the sun did come out to make up for it.
There were numerous questions about the "Big SE" on the backs of our jerseys and met many people who were excited to go to our SkiSE website. A big thanks to Mike, who sponsored us again this year, and also to Finnigan's Wake, SoMe Social Media (Skiwyter's company) and my personal favorite Chappell Heating and Air (Bultaco's company) and also to St. Timothy's Episcopal Church who pulls all these folks together. Our team raised more than $7000 with more still to be added to the totals. One of my highlights was when several women with MS came and visited our tent to personally thank us for supporting them. The gratitude they had was worth all the challenges we faced.
Saturday riders
Sunday riders
Dale working on my bike at the rest stop
Bultaco and Skiwryter dancing (?) to the band at the rest stop
Roadskaters
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The messageboard is now in read-only mode and no new posts or topics can be created. We will leave the messageboard up for historical purposes, but you will not be able to make new posts or comment on existing ones.
We have started a Discord server and hope that you all will join us on there. Technology has changed over the years and maintaining the messageboard has become somewhat of a pain in the butt and Discord offers many features for users, the main one being a very polished mobile app.
We really hope you all will join us on Discord and think you will like the platform. Use the invite link below to join.
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Skipink's MS Ride 2011
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dreamnofpow
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Good stuff Pink! I will be running for the cure this weekend in G-Vegas.
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skipink
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Definately hamme skates!
Missing Josh and his cousin Robbie as a riders plus we have a few new converts from the team to the SkiSE world. Dracan made an appearance as a beer taster.
Missing Josh and his cousin Robbie as a riders plus we have a few new converts from the team to the SkiSE world. Dracan made an appearance as a beer taster.
"Nothing changes if nothing changes."
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angel
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@hnhbaxter 251020 wrote:Angel, beer is for the Carbs loading 
Oh! Well, if that's the case.....hammee one a dem beers! AND, I read a report today that research shows that dark chocolate improves your performance and energy level during any exercise, soooooooo.....
Oh! Well, if that's the case.....hammee one a dem beers! AND, I read a report today that research shows that dark chocolate improves your performance and energy level during any exercise, soooooooo.....