{"id":8766,"date":"2025-10-22T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?post_type=moa_podcasts&#038;p=8766"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:47:21","slug":"going-the-distance-and-quickly-with-kelly-valdez-rits","status":"publish","type":"moa_podcasts","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/moa_podcasts\/going-the-distance-and-quickly-with-kelly-valdez-rits\/","title":{"rendered":"Going the distance (and quickly!) with Kelly Valdez (RITS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8766\" class=\"elementor elementor-8766\" data-elementor-post-type=\"moa_podcasts\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1409539 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1409539\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6354d334 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6354d334\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>KELLY VALDEZ likes long distance rides. She\u2019s ridden cross country seven times\u2014five times solo\u2014and has also traveled extensively in Canada and Europe. She prefers speedy sport bikes over more upright models. \u201cI have a high need for speed,\u201d Kelly says.<\/p>\n\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Embed Player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/38645070\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/f06823\/time-start\/00:00:00\/hide-playlist\/yes\/download\/yes\/font-color\/000000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"192\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8767 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1186\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8767 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kelly-Valdez-RITS-768x843.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Riding Into The Sunset<\/em>\u00a0is brought to you by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwownersnews.com\/\">BMW Motorcycle Owners of America<\/a>\u00a0and hosted by journalist &amp; author Ed Housewright. Reach us by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:podcast@bmwmoa.org?subject=RITS\">podcast@bmwmoa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KELLY VALDEZ likes long distance rides. She\u2019s ridden cross country seven times\u2014five times solo\u2014and has also traveled extensively in Canada and Europe. She prefers speedy sport bikes over more upright models. \u201cI have a high need for speed,\u201d Kelly says. Riding Into The Sunset\u00a0is brought to you by the\u00a0BMW Motorcycle Owners of America\u00a0and hosted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5859,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"podcast":[78],"class_list":["post-8766","moa_podcasts","type-moa_podcasts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","podcast-riding-into-the-sunset"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/moa_podcasts"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}