{"id":218,"date":"2016-07-02T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/2016\/07\/02\/july-2016-is-relay-month\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:34:15","slug":"july-2016-is-relay-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/2016\/07\/02\/july-2016-is-relay-month\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2016 is Relay Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A resolution to declare July 2016 as Tree Farm\u00a0Relay<\/span>\u00a0Month.<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, the Motor City Mountain Biking Association and Team Tree Farm hosts a benefit race in July; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, MCMBA mountain bike races are a vibrant affirmation and expression of Michigan?s finest traditions, operating as volunteer-based events and raising funding for developing and maintaining Michigan trails; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, mountain bikers are some of the coolest people around; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, we have it on the highest authority that July 30th is going to have perfect weather this year; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, the excellent, professional firm of Newton Timing and Race Services has again been retained to provide RFID based timing services for the event; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, some of the past costumes worn by Tree Farm\u00a0<\/span>Relay<\/span>\u00a0participants have been highly creative and memorialized in both facebook photos and in our nightmares; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, we can?t wait to see what people come up with this year; and<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas<\/span>, children will find fun and refreshments racing on the Sapling Loop; and<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas<\/span>, mountain bikers support business by purchasing hops, grains, yeast, and bicycle parts in significant quantities; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, the\u00a0<\/span>Relay<\/span>\u00a0racing format promotes a high level of competition as well as time for food, drink and social interaction during the day; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, beautiful Lakeshore Park in Novi provides an excellent venue for this event, with interesting singletrack and fast passing zones, children play areas, a nice sandy beach, a cheerful, helpful park staff, rest rooms, and ample space for participant tents and staging areas; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, there is a high probability of finding a tiki bar out on the race course; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, in partial compensation for the cuts, scrapes, bruises, mosquito bites, poison ivy and a host of other less than desirable maladies resulting from sweat equity in May, June and early July trail maintenance activities, Team Tree Farm shall allow for a reasonable level of responsible debauchery during the Tree Farm\u00a0<\/span>Relay<\/span>; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, Motor City Mountain Biking Association members are vested in the future, health, and welfare of our trails as providing a diverse set of quality experiences to promote fitness and develop mountain biking skills of a broad range of riders; and<\/span>

Whereas<\/span>, mountain bike benefit races are one of the primary funding sources for the chapter; now, therefore, be it<\/span>

Resolved by the Motor City Mountain Biking Association, an IMBA chapter, that the members of this body declare July 2016 as Tree Farm<\/span>Relay<\/span>\u00a0Month in the state of Michigan. We recognize the contributions that the MCMBA, Team Tree Farm, and our volunteers have made to the communities and economy of this area.<\/span>

The question being on the adoption of the resolution,<\/span>

The resolution was adopted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Join us!<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A resolution to declare July 2016 as Tree Farm\u00a0Relay\u00a0Month.Whereas, the Motor City Mountain Biking Association and Team Tree Farm hosts a benefit race in July; andWhereas, MCMBA mountain bike races are a vibrant affirmation and expression of Michigan?s finest traditions, operating as volunteer-based events and raising funding for developing and maintaining Michigan trails; andWhereas, mountain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianleefritz.com\/joomla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}