Yesterday's post showed all the fun and exciting things we did while up north and this post is the all the work and sweat that took place.
We woke up at 5:30 am and I drove M to the starting location of the MS150. This year is different for M. While he almost always has rode alone, this year he started a team at his work. He recruited six other employees, including one of the owners to ride with him. The team of seven ranged in their biking abilities and ages of barely 24 to 55+ years old, with M as team captain.
M made his goal of raising $1,000 and in fact, raised $1,115. As a group, they raised $5,455 to date with more donations still coming in. How awesome is that?
The group got a late start at 7:20 am but were done by 1 pm in Hinckley, the first 70 or so miles of the trip was complete. I picked up M in Hinckley and then we went to his parent's house to stay. He was in pretty good spirits and was exhausted but doing well considering the weather was 86 degrees once he pulled into Hinckley. The good thing was there wasn't much wind. That's always a bikers dream...or at least have the wind at your back.
After resting for awhile, we headed to Grand Casino to meet some of his riding buddies as they were just eating at the buffet. We had a quick drink and then walked around the camping and resting areas a lot of the bikers were at. If you're lucky enough to get a hotel, great. If you don't or want to rough it a bit, you get to sleep outside on the casino grounds in a tent.
M went to bed around 10 pm, after a super nice full body massage from me.
We woke up on Sunday, again at 5:30 am and headed to the starting area. I dropped M off so he could be with his team for a 6:30 am start. One of the riders in his group had a flat tire so they didn't actually get going until 6:50 am or so. The next 8 hours would be brutal for M.
The wind was terrible. A headwind of 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph plagued them all day. They started to fall apart as a team as the day went on as some had more endurance than others. M said at times he was only going 7 mph on his bike because of the wind! Forget about the fact that it was almost 90 degrees, that didn't bother him. It was that damn wind.
M finished about 3:45 pm or so and was dead tired. I picked him up and he said it was the hardest MS150 he has done in his 11 year career.
I am so proud of M and his team to complete this feat as well as raise a great amount of money for a good cause. Congratulations honeybear!
For those that donated, they received a thank you card handmade by yours truly, a photo individually thanking them and a hand written note from M. If you haven't received your thank you card in the mail, contact M or myself.
We woke up at 5:30 am and I drove M to the starting location of the MS150. This year is different for M. While he almost always has rode alone, this year he started a team at his work. He recruited six other employees, including one of the owners to ride with him. The team of seven ranged in their biking abilities and ages of barely 24 to 55+ years old, with M as team captain.
The group got a late start at 7:20 am but were done by 1 pm in Hinckley, the first 70 or so miles of the trip was complete. I picked up M in Hinckley and then we went to his parent's house to stay. He was in pretty good spirits and was exhausted but doing well considering the weather was 86 degrees once he pulled into Hinckley. The good thing was there wasn't much wind. That's always a bikers dream...or at least have the wind at your back.
M went to bed around 10 pm, after a super nice full body massage from me.
We woke up on Sunday, again at 5:30 am and headed to the starting area. I dropped M off so he could be with his team for a 6:30 am start. One of the riders in his group had a flat tire so they didn't actually get going until 6:50 am or so. The next 8 hours would be brutal for M.
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I am so proud of M and his team to complete this feat as well as raise a great amount of money for a good cause. Congratulations honeybear!
For those that donated, they received a thank you card handmade by yours truly, a photo individually thanking them and a hand written note from M. If you haven't received your thank you card in the mail, contact M or myself.
How about the floods in Duluth? Check out this link for some of the pictures! First off, the girl runner? Take a day off, girl! Seriously! And the seal? I feel so bad for him! He did get back to the zoo safely. Unfortunately a donkey and some other animals did not make it. It's so crazy that we were just here in Duluth less than a couple of weeks ago.
2 comments:
It's great that M got a team together! That's more money to a great cause! I have a friend who recently found out she has MS... so it's my newest cause to help fight! Sorry I couldn't donate this time (weddings and trips have me looking in my couch cushions for spare change!)
Also, the photo of canal park is NOT from this weeks flooding. From what I understand most of the flooding is happening on top of the hill - up by the mall - canal probably has some damage and whatnot, but that huge wave is actually an older picture that's been floating around the web for a bit - this link sites it as happening in 2001 (and the article was written on 5/31): http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/Seiche-Lake-Erie-tsunami-swamps-Lake-County-marinas-this-past-weekend
It sucks that people on facebook are posting pictures from EVERYWHERE and claiming it as part of the storm this week. One of my FB 'friends' posted a quite famous photo of a possible tornado over some farm fields, that I've seen circulating the web for years... he said it was the storm that rolled through this week. anyhow - from what I can find, Canal Park was not hit that bad... who knows though.
Thanks for the clarification, Ang. I've removed that photo from this post.
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