{"id":3255,"date":"2009-12-12T23:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T05:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2009-12-12T23:45:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T05:45:54","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-december-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-december-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for December 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.recumbentblog.com\/2009\/12\/12\/easy-street-recumbents-compendium-of-knowledge\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.recumbentblog.com\/2009\/12\/12\/easy-street-recumbents-compendium-of-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Recumbent Blog \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Easy Street Recumbents &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Rob<br \/>\nIn truth, it is the latest recumbent blog I&#8217;ve discovered by the good folks at Easy Street Recumbents in north Austin, Texas. A young fellow by the name of Sam Placette (bills himself as Shop Assistant, Webmaster and Janitor in Training) &#8230; So, of course, I rip right over to said blog, the aforementioned \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Easy Street Recumbents \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Useful Knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and found some really great articles. Such as \u00e2\u20ac\u201c. What is Bicycle Education, and why should anyone care? by Mike Librik and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/prolifictom.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/day-two-october-7-2009-part-2.html\" href=\"http:\/\/prolifictom.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/day-two-october-7-2009-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas or Bust: My Bicycle Trip From K.C. To Austin: Day Two &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Prolific Tom<br \/>\nApparently I wasn&#8217;t the first bicycle tourist to come through her small town. She related a story of another young man who camped in the lot next to the store a year or so before. I purchased an apple, candy bar and Gatorade and enjoyed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.commuterdude.com\/2009\/12\/resolution-time.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commuterdude.com\/2009\/12\/resolution-time.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>commuterDude: Resolution time<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby commuterDude<br \/>\nTo get to my &#8220;fighting weight&#8221; of race-day at MV24 of 147 pounds, I need to shed about 20. I&#8217;ve gotten to a healthy weight, yes &#8211; but I need to take it a step further, and then stay there and train on it. &#8230; #2) Goal: A &#8220;finish&#8221; at The Texas Time Trials 2010, specifically the Tejas 500 event, 48-hour start time. If I finish faster than that, so be it &#8211; but I am giving myself the maximum allowable time. There is, as far as I can read, no bonus for finishing after taking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/content\/news\/local\/hillsborough\/west\/tampa\/story\/Despite-pain-and-injuries-wounded-vets-head-out\/KufXHfd7XUKNQENs7R3eKA.cspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/content\/news\/local\/hillsborough\/west\/tampa\/story\/Despite-pain-and-injuries-wounded-vets-head-out\/KufXHfd7XUKNQENs7R3eKA.cspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Despite pain and injuries, wounded vets head out on cycling trip<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby ABC Action News<br \/>\nArmy veteran Nathan Hunt from San Antonio, Texas has been through three tours overseas, but he&#8217;s about to go on a different kind of mission. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/11\/couple-a-good-example-that-dedication-will-yield\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/11\/couple-a-good-example-that-dedication-will-yield\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BILL CULLINS: Couple a good example that dedication will yield fitness results<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Angelo Standard Times<br \/>\nI caught up with the Whites on a recent afternoon as they were about to join in on a group cycling ride. The interesting part was that they had already &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recumbent Blog \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Easy Street Recumbents &#8230; by Rob In truth, it is the latest recumbent blog I&#8217;ve discovered by the good folks at Easy Street Recumbents in north Austin, Texas. A young fellow by the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-december-12th\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1183,660,1182,1181],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-commuterdude","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-kc-to-texas","tag-recumbent-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}