{"id":1363,"date":"2012-09-24T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-09-24T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T13:38:56","slug":"ms-150-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/ms-150-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"MS-150 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a summer of rather\u00a0lackadaisical\u00a0training, I finally got in my century ride for the season. \u00a0I like to work in one big ride per year, and this year it was the MS-150<\/a>. \u00a0Saturday morning I met up with a few buddies out at the Garmin plant in Olathe, and we joined a few thousand other riders heading towards Lawrence, KS. \u00a0Munkirs and I had done the 100 mile MS-150 ride before, but last time we went the\u00a0opposite\u00a0direction to Sedalia. \u00a0It was my friend Don’s first try at a 100 mile ride. \u00a0Overall, I’d say it was a positive day. \u00a0All three of us finished, so it’s a win in my book. \u00a0The weather, as far as the temperature went, was nothing less than perfect. \u00a0On the downside, we fought a brutal wind the majority of the way. Holy smokes, I’m not sure I’ve ever ridden in a wind like that. \u00a0It had to be a good 20 mph all the time, with gusts that would nearly put you in the ditch. \u00a0And, as luck would have it, it was always in our faces or across us, except for a stretch near \u00a0the end when we actually got to ride with it for a bit. \u00a0I guess we were in it for the challenge, and it certainly added to that.<\/p>\n

For the most part, I’ll give the ride a passing grade. \u00a0The wind stunk, and I made the unfortunate discovery that Kansas is the biggest proponent of chip-and-seal road surfacing in the nation. \u00a0(I think my arms are still vibrating from that nasty crap.) \u00a0But, we had Donette and Teagan at a few spots along the route cheering us on, and I had a good time in Lawrence when we finally got there. \u00a0We got checked into a hotel and cleaned up, then met up with Don and his wife for a celebration pizza dinner. \u00a0I’d have liked to stay out a bit longer, but I was struggling to keep my eyes open so we headed back to the hotel to watch TV. \u00a0I think I was asleep by like 7:30.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning, I got up early and headed down for day two of the event. \u00a0Don and Munkirs had made the (probably wise) decision to get back to KC by way of motorized transportation, so I was on my own for this ride. \u00a0That seemed to be a popular choice; \u00a0I’d say there were no more than a few hundred riders heading out. \u00a0It was a brisk start to the day too, a crisp 34 degrees. \u00a0It warmed up pretty quick though, and I popped in my headphones for a nice little ride. \u00a0It was so nice out that I gave a (very) brief thought to riding the whole 72 mile route, but luckily common sense kicked in and I opted for the 38 mile ride. \u00a0I’d had some nasty leg cramps during the night and I didn’t want those coming back, plus I was experiencing some discomfort in my… errrr… well… “contact points.” \u00a0Six hours on a bike seat will do that I guess. \u00a0Fine weekend of riding, I tentatively plan on doing it again next year. \u00a0I like the Sedalia route about ten times better, but unfortunately I don’t get a vote in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a summer of rather\u00a0lackadaisical\u00a0training, I finally got in my century ride for the season. \u00a0I like to work in one big ride per year, and this year it was the MS-150. \u00a0Saturday morning I met up with a few buddies out at the Garmin plant in Olathe, and we joined a few thousand other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}