7am start from the CSU campus with a 11am finish at the MS150 finale in Westminster. Another day at a good clip. For the first time we opted for the non-foothills route west of Ft. Collins. We felt good today but after doing 100 milers and many of the 75 mile rides on previous MS150's we opted for something different and took the slightly shorter route. After riding across the country I've got nothing to prove and nothing I'm training for so why not??🤔
Rider #170, that's me heading west this morning. Thanks to friends and family raising $2,450 for MS this year allowed me to be in the top 200 fund raisers for the CO/WY Multiple Sclerosis Society. Combined with the other 4,000 bike riders and their supporters we raised over $4,000,000 this year to help research to develop a cure for this disease. At lunch yesterday we met a woman about our age named Bev. She told us she road the Bike Centenial in 1976 from Portland to Yorktown,VA. This is the route now called the TransAm route, the same route that Angela, John and I road our bikes on to the Outer Banks. We saw Bev again at the finish line yesterday which was a fast day for us. Bev is one of over 100 riders who ride our MS150 that have MS, truly amazing. If you haven't given yet, please do so.
Crossing the finish line in Westminster at the highschool that's taken over by the MS Society for this event. 
It's nice to know that a bike ride on two warm summer days in June in Colorado can raise over $4,000,000 for MS research and support for victims of the disease. Thanks for helping me help them!
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