Road Cycling - Anyone riding Central PA MS150 in July?

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bean4158
05-06-04, 05:00 PM
Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone on the list was planning to ride the Central Pennsylvania MS150 in July? It goes from Hollidaysburg - my hometown! :) - to State College and back the next day. Also was wondering if anyone had ever ridden? If so how was it. Living in Florida, we don't have many hills here.

Thanks,

Mike

ArthurDent
05-14-04, 09:05 PM
Hi Mike,
This year will be my first Central PA MS150 as well. I've driven on most of the roads on the route, and it looks challenging. I don't recall seeing any truly monster climbs, though it seems like there will be an endless series of moderate hills. Veterans of this ride seem to agree that the first day is the harder of the two days. There are some photos of last year's ride at http://www.blairbicycleclub.com/index.shtml. There's some on the homepage and more in the Gallery section of the site.

See you there,
Terry
bean4158
05-15-04, 10:14 AM
Hi Mike,
This year will be my first Central PA MS150 as well. I've driven on most of the roads on the route, and it looks challenging. I don't recall seeing any truly monster climbs, though it seems like there will be an endless series of moderate hills. Veterans of this ride seem to agree that the first day is the harder of the two days. There are some photos of last year's ride at http://www.blairbicycleclub.com/index.shtml. There's some on the homepage and more in the Gallery section of the site.

See you there,
Terry


Thanks Terry! I spent some time looking at the bike club web page and even saw a name or two that I recognized from my days in Hollidaysburg. The pictures of the Junior High School brought back memories as well.

Any idea how many riders will actually start the ride? I just did the Houston to Austin 150 in April and there were 11,000 finishers of that ride! We had a great time. Are there actually teams in this ride, like the one in Houston?

Thanks again and I hope to see you at the start line in July.

Mike :)