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New this year — FREE admission to the Hastings Museum and Lied Super Screen Theatre! See Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France in the Lied Super Screen Theatre. |
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Tour the scenic, paved country roads surrounding the birthplace of Kool-Aid. Part of your registration fee is donated to the construction and beautification of the Pioneer Spirit Trail. Choose from a 30 or 60-mile route with several rest stops with Kool-Aid refreshment along the way.
2008 - Soaked Cyclists Smile for Kool-Aid
2007 - Cyclists Just Keep Pedaling for Kool-Aid
2006 - Cyclists “Doped Up” on Kool-Aid
2005 - Cyclists Ride & Drink to Raise Money
2004 - PST Phase One Near Completion, Gets Big Donaion
2003 - Kool-Aid Classic Bicycle Tour A Success
Registration
Saturday morning from 7:00 - 7:45 a.m. at the Highland Park shelter (behind the Hastings Museum at 14th & Burlington). Everyone must check-in and sign a release form. Public restrooms and water are available.
Start Time
Saturday morning, August 9, at 8:00 a.m. from the Highland Park parking lot.
Entry Fee
Pre-Registration — $22.00
- Entries must be postmarked before July 27, includes T-shirt
After July 27 & Day of Tour — $22.00
- No T-shirt
Fee Includes
- T-Shirt — For Pre-Registered Riders
- Fully supported rest stops
- FREE admission and lunch at the Hastings Museum, catered by Garden Café
- FREE admission to one giant screen film at Lied Super Screen Theatre
- Kool-Aid packet
For More Information
Bruce & Alisa Sandahl
Phone: 402-463-1138
Email: absandahl@alltel.net
Routes
How to Get Here
Take Exit 312 from I-80. Turn South on Rt. 281 for about 16 miles. Turn East on 14th Street. Take the first right turn into the parking lot behind the Hastings Museum. Registration is at the shelter in Highland Park behind the train.
After the Ride
Showers are available after the ride at the Hastings YMCA on 16th Street. Join us inside the Hastings Museum for an after-ride meal. Additional meals and discount admission to the museum may be purchased for your family and friends who may not have participated in the ride. Discount admission to the Lied Super Screen Theatre is also available to guests of ride participants.
New this Year!
The after-ride meal is in the Hastings Museum. Your meal, admission to the museum and giant screen film are all included with your entry fee. Family and friends that attend with you but don't particpate in the ride may purchase admission to the museum and/or theatre at a discounted rate.
At registration, you will receive a certificate to the Hastings Museum. Upon checking in at the museum for lunch, you will be asked which giant screen film you would like to see. You may choose from the three films that will be showing. The showtimes are listed below.
After the ride, join us in the Hastings Museum for a meal of lasagna or veggie lasagna, garden salad, roll and a drink. Then enjoy all the museum has to offer. Featuring the J.M. McDonald Planetarium, the hands-on Groundwater Discovery Adventure, and the Lied Super Screen Theatre, the museum has many species of animals set in their natural habitats including the world’s largest display of Whooping cranes. The museum also chronicles the history of the early inhabitants of the Nebraska plains and how Edwin Perkins created the famous soft drink Kool-Aid.
Wired to Win
Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, a new giant screen film now showing at the Lied Super Screen Theatre, tells the true story of two riders in the legendary bike race – Australian Baden Cooke, and his French teammate Jimmy Casper – as they attempt to compete in the grueling three-week-long event. The film follows Baden, Jimmy and the other elite athletes over the towering peaks of the Alps and the cobblestone streets of Paris, as they try to avoid danger, deny crushing pain and fatigue, control their emotions, seize fleeting moments of opportunity and stay highly motivated. Powering each of them is the source of universal ambition and ability: the human brain, presented here as a dynamic engine of possibility.
Showtimes
Saturday, August 9
| Lied Super Screen Theatre | |
| Sea Monsters | 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. |
| Dinosaurs Alive | 12:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. |
| Wired to Win | 1:00 p.m. |
| J.M. McDonald Planetrarium | |
| The Sky Tonight + Skywatch | 1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m. & 4:00 p.m. |
Pioneer Spirit Trail
From the funds raised with the help of cyclists like you, $6000 from the Pioneer Spirit Trail fund was donated to the City of Hastings to help purchase the land for the final section of Phase 2. Once completed, this section will connect Phase 1 and the completed portion of Phase 2 for a continuous 4-mile trail around Hastings. This trail connects Libs Park, Lake Hastings, Hastings College, Heartwell Park and the train station.
Safety
Helmets are required. Roads are open to traffic, so please obey all traffic and safety rules. All riders must sign a waiver at registration. Riders under 18 years old must have a parent or guardian sign their waiver.
Kool-Aid Days
Thousands of “kids” of all ages gather in Hastings, Nebraska the second full weekend of every August to celebrate the invention of Kool-Aid, Nebraska’s Official Soft Drink, by Edwin Perkins in 1927. The festival features the World’s Largest Kool-Aid Stand, giant inflatable rides, carnival games, festival foods, trolley rides through the Hastings Historic District and many other events. Visitors can purchase commemorative “Kollectibles” including special $2 mugs, which entitle them to drink as much Kool-Aid as they want of 16 flavors served.
On Sunday, August 10, the Hastings Museum offers fun for the whole family, including the Kool-Aid: Discover the Dream exhibit.
For more information about Kool-Aid Days, call 402-461-8405 or visit the website www.kool-aiddays.com.
Links
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