{"id":655,"date":"2008-01-23T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/655"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:11:09","slug":"countdown-to-the-2008-sams-club-ms-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/countdown-to-the-2008-sams-club-ms-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the 2008 SAM&#8217;S CLUB MS 150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lone Star Chapter is starting its 100-day countdown to the 2008 SAM&#8217;S CLUB MS 150, one of the largest non-profit cycling events in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 4,000 cyclists are expected to participate in this year&#8217;s two-day fund-raising event, which rides from Frisco to downtown Fort Worth on May 3 &#8211; 4 with an overnight stop at Texas Motor Speedway. Already, 1,500 riders have signed up for this spring roll through the Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee is $25 per rider, but that fee doubles to $50 on Feb. 1. Organizers are encouraging everyone to sign up now to save $25 a piece. Online registration is available at MS150.org.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 3,000 SAM&#8217;S CLUB MS 150 riders and sponsors raised a record $2.3 million to support MS research and services for Texans living with multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>The SAM&#8217;S CLUB MS 150 is one of three Texas fund-raising rides hosted by the National MS Society, Lone Star Chapter. The others are the Houston-to-Austin BP MS 150 in April and the San Antonio-to-Corpus Christi Valero MS 150 in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MS150.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.MS150.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lone Star Chapter is starting its 100-day countdown to the 2008 SAM&#8217;S CLUB MS 150, one of the largest non-profit cycling events in the United States. Approximately 4,000 cyclists are expected to participate in this <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/countdown-to-the-2008-sams-club-ms-150\/\"><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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}