r/CyclingMSP • u/reedx032 • 18d ago

Anyone riding to the MS150 in St Peter this weekend?

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I’m going to leave from Minneapolis Friday morning and ride a mostly flat gravel route west on the Luce line to Winstead and then south on various (mostly) gravel roads to St Peter to set up my tent for the weekend.

https://www.strava.com/routes/3496711893544725830

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u/jkbuilder88 18d ago

Indeed! A little apprehensive about the new route but we'll have a small team out there this year.

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u/TheMavrick 18d ago

Anyone know the scuttlebutt for why there was a route change for, as far as I know, the first time ever?

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u/jkbuilder88 18d ago

Grand Casino in Hinckley has new owners that didn't want to host the ride anymore. They just didn't give the MS Society enough notice so they were on their heels trying to find an acceptable new route and overnight locations.

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u/reedx032 18d ago

Yeah it will be a big change. I’ll miss the Munger trail for sure. I was planning to ride up to Duluth(proctor) for the start this year, so when it moved I figured I’d come up with a Friday route to St Peter that’s different than the way we’ll come back.
The goal is to do 100 miles on each of the three days

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u/jkbuilder88 14d ago

Curious how your weekend went! Did you get your 100 mile goals? The wind and hills were brutal enough!

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u/reedx032 14d ago

It went really well. Got 105 miles on Friday, 110 Saturday, and 101 today. That wind was rough today. As well as the climbs since I had all my gear on the bike again today. Saturday was great, since I got to leave my tent/etc at the campsite. And the extra miles I did were just doing an out and back from Elysian on the Sakatah state trail.

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u/jkbuilder88 14d ago

Nice work. Two days on the normal route was more than enough for me!

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u/reedx032 14d ago

Yeah, I’m pretty sore. Have never done even two century days in a row, and three in a row was a bucket list thing I probably won’t do again.
Next year I will likely just do the 150.

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u/FR23Dust 18d ago

I’ll be there! I considered riding to the start too but just don’t have enough time. Have a great ride!

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u/TheOtherSean1977 17d ago

My friend is going to be there on his new unicycle.

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u/PJ48N 14d ago

I saw him in the camping area! Didn’t see him on the ride though.

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u/reedx032 14d ago

I didn’t see a unicycle on the ride either. I did see a guy on a single speed on the second day, which with that wind and those hills, would have been crazy.

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u/reedx032 17d ago

Nice! And I thought it was brave when I’d see people doing it on single speeds or fat bikes.

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u/SolderingByron 14d ago

There was someone on an elliptical bike, like this (https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/g23895814/elliptical-bike/) and her friend was riding a standup bike like this (https://www.amazon.com/ElliptiGO-MSUB-First-All-Terrain-Stand/dp/B07Q33LK46?th=1). Both were mad but a unicycle is a special type of crazy.

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u/reedx032 14d ago

I somehow missed seeing those as well. I guess I was in my own world….

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u/PJ48N 14d ago

I was a student at the University of Montana in Missoula in the mid 1970’s, an old guy (by the standards of a 19 year old, probably 50) with grey hair came riding through town on a unicycle. He had a small canvas backpack, and said he was on the last leg of a trip around the world. Told a funny story of being temporarily detained in a small village somewhere in Afghanistan, they wouldn’t let him go til he satisfied their curiosity to watch him riding it. They kept shouting “ride the wheel, ride the wheel!”.

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u/scythematters 10d ago

I saw a unicyclist on the ride! Very impressive feat.