Texbiker.net

By Michael D. Hernandez / El Paso Times

Tumbling headfirst over the handlebars was not how Eastsider Tyler Cope pictured the beginning of his trek across the country, but there he was June 2, sprawled out on a California highway, scraped up and his cycling helmet cracked but intact.”Day 1 was probably the hardest part,” Cope, 21, said about cycling uphill for dozens of miles away from the ocean, then crashing. “It was just like a big mental game that I had so much riding against me. If it was day after day like that, I really didn’t know if I could do it but, after a little while, all that got me stronger.”

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from beaumontenterprise.com

By: HEATHER NOLAN, The Enterprise

On Tuesday, Southeast Texas natives Joe Haeggquist, Tom Simon, Charlie Dixon, Eric Laing, Richard James and Britt Gober will begin pedaling their bicycles across the country from San Diego to Washington, D.C.

The group plans to traverse the 3,300 miles in 33 days - 100 miles a day - to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which focuses on cancer awareness. They plan to stop in 34 cities.

Along the way, they’ll be sporting helmets with a Beaumont logo, and the Beaumont Convention and Visitors Bureau provided them with T-shirts to hand out at each stop.

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from KXAN.com

St. Stephen’s sophomore Megan Bentzin is about to make her mark on America.

“I really feel like I need something to pull me closer to my home country,” she says.

Later this month, just outside of Savannah, Ga., Bentzin will dip the front wheel of her bicycle into the Atlantic Ocean, then ride for six weeks, covering more than 3000 miles to the Pacific.

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I ran across this blog that is from Chugach Peaks Photography. The writer is blogging as he rides the southern part of the US. Today’s entry describes his arrival into Texas at El Paso. There are maps and you can catchup on the earlier days.

Link to joescoasttocoast.blogspot.com website