{"id":12148,"date":"2015-05-06T05:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/?p=12148"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:04:16","slug":"charity-bike-ride-ms-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/charity-bike-ride-ms-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Charity Bike Ride – The MS Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year Joe and I did the MS Bike Ride<\/a> in Vancouver<\/strong>. It was our first charity bike ride. We had wanted to do a charity bike ride for quite some time, but it just never worked out. Then Joe received a request from the MS organization to publicize their Vancouver MS Bike Ride<\/strong>. Of course he was happy to endorse and spread the word, but it also got us thinking about joining the ride. We have been touched by MS and thought that the MS Bike Ride was an under-supported ride. We were in!<\/p>\n

We quickly set up our fund-raising pages and sent out alerts. Of course this became a friendly (not-so-friendly) competition that Joe was determined to win. We were so late in entering the MS Bike Ride<\/strong><\/a> that we were unable to persuade any friends to join our team, so we set our fund-raising goals pretty low. Thanks to our friends and family we had to raise our fund-raising goals three times. We were also delighted when John Folka joined our little team.<\/p>\n

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