{"id":2017,"date":"2012-09-09T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2012-09-09T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:58:45","slug":"further-fundraising-for-food-foray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/further-fundraising-for-food-foray\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Fundraising for Food Foray"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I participated in the inaugural Will Bike 4 Food ride<\/a>, put on by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts<\/a>.\u00a0 The Food Bank obviously considered that event a success, as they’re doing it again this year (it did raise more than $35,000 for their efforts in 2011).\u00a0 I’m going to be riding in the event again this year.<\/p>\n

I’ll be doing 100 miles again, and while I now know that’s an attainable goal, because I have more experience with long rides I’m challenging myself to finish the ride in significantly less time.\u00a0 It took me over 10-and-a-half hours last September.\u00a0 I’m now shooting for riding the 100 miles in 9 hours or less.\u00a0 With more experience and a lighter bike, I think I can do it.\u00a0 The route will be different, perhaps with fewer hills, and perhaps with more – that remains to be seen (it does go up into Vermont, which is neat).<\/p>\n

I also want to offer an extra incentive to get donations – a partial matching grant, if you will.\u00a0 I’ve set a goal of $1000 in donations to collect (last year donations to my ride totaled around $800).\u00a0 If we can reach that $1000 goal, I will kick in an additional $500 of my own money – so the Food Bank will get a total of $1500 from my ride.<\/p>\n

You can visit my fundraising page<\/a> to give online, and find out more about the event.\u00a0 If you prefer to give offline, contact me to make arrangements.\u00a0 I’m also happy to answer any questions about the ride – you can e-mail me or post here in the comments.<\/p>\n

The ride is in 3 weeks, and should be a blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year I participated in the inaugural Will Bike 4 Food ride, put on by the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.\u00a0 The Food Bank obviously considered that event a success, as they’re doing it again this year (it did raise more than $35,000 for their efforts in 2011).\u00a0 I’m going to be riding in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}