{"id":517,"date":"2007-08-21T04:49:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2007-08-21T04:49:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T10:49:17","slug":"ms-150-cyclists-recall-their-first-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/ms-150-cyclists-recall-their-first-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"MS 150 cyclists recall their first rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/salife\/health\/stories\/MYSA082007.1P.MS150.26af930.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the San Antonio Express-News<\/a><\/strong> (full article)<\/p>\n<p>Paula Hunt<br \/>\nExpress-News<\/p>\n<p>It started as a dare eight years ago when Peter Ray and a friend challenged each other to sign up for the Valero MS 150 Bike Tour, a two-day, 150-mile charity bicycle ride from San Antonio to Corpus Christi. The experience ended up transforming Ray, 44, from a recreational cyclist into a true enthusiast and MS 150 advocate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Riding into the wind going across the (Nueces Bay) causeway was the thing that got me hooked,&#8221; says Ray, who works in information services at Valero. &#8220;It was such a sense of accomplishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the San Antonio Express-News (full article) Paula Hunt Express-News It started as a dare eight years ago when Peter Ray and a friend challenged each other to sign up for the Valero MS 150 Bike Tour, a two-day, 150-mile <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/ms-150-cyclists-recall-their-first-rides\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-bike-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}