Thursday, July 11, 2013

Ride Updates

Here's a little more info for you as we get closer and the registrations start coming in! The camping fees are $12 a day for a tent site or $18 a night for electricity. There is fresh water, restrooms, and showers at the site. We are staying at the main camp, not the inlet. This is where the start and finish of the ride will be unless things change for some unforeseen reason. For more info, check the Nebraska Game and Parks website and you can call the number at Johnson's Lake if you need more details. You can also reserve some of the electrical sites.

There will be a shorter 50 mile route. If there is enough demand, we can support a 30 mile route as well but I haven't heard enough requests for one and those who don't want to do 50 can always go around the which a good portion is on trail now.

The century is going to be optionally competitive with prizes being donated! Anyone who completes the full century for the first time (last year completers not included) will receive a jersey! We're still working on the possible top 3 finisher prizes. I'm thinking special tshirts and allow anyone the option to order shirts after the ride. We really have no funds to work with so this makes having a bunch of tshirts on hand difficult. Sorry!

The post card registration is fun for me but I am planning on making a Facebook event page for another optional registration method. I do still prefer the post card because it gives me hard copies of everyone's basic information that will make it easier to keep track of everyone and try to make sure no one goes missing on the route as well as know that those who took the time to mail a postcard are hopefully planning to try hard to make it to the ride so seemingly helps logistics be a little more accurate.

I'll try to keep the updates coming! I think name-wise the ride will still be known as the 100 Meridian Hundred by popular demand but this year will be subtitled Fresh Water Century as it seems to me it needs a new theme it being at Johnson Lake. The halfway point should be near the 100 Meridian sign in Cozad though!


1 comment:

  1. If it counts for anything, I like the new name better.

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