{"id":4121,"date":"2010-03-07T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T05:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2010-03-07T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T05:33:37","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trinity Bicycles to the Rescue<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom Rat Trap Press
\nA few days ago I mentioned that bloggers, and cross country bike tourists Russ Rocca and Laura Crawford (The Path Less Pedaled and The Epicurean Cyclist) will be riding into Fort Worth sometime in late March or early April. They have been doing photo and video presentations all along their route and are interested in doing one here. After some brainstorming about venues with the BABBLE folks I decided to contact Trinity Bicycles and see if they would be interested in teaming up. …<\/p>\n

Learn how to ride safely and effectively on city streets<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom Bike DFW
\nBikeDFW is offering a new one day version of the the Traffic Skills 101 cycling course on March 21, 2010 in North Dallas. The new format includes online instruction (taken at your convenience) and 5 hours of on-bike parking lot drills and riding (to lunch) with Certified Cycling Instructors on city streets. For more information and registration, see the Current Courses section of the BikeDFW web site. …<\/p>\n

Finished Baytown Gator 100k<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom Life on a Baron
\nFast flat fun ride southeast of Houston, spent most of it with the front group swapping spots.
\n61.5 miles
\n3 hours 5 minutes
\n20.2 mph average<\/p>\n

rbent Forum – Baytown Gator 100k<\/strong><\/a>
\nBaytown Gator 100k. Yesterday at 9:21pm … If you can make it to Houston you must do this ride, the only hill was over the Fred Hartman cable bridge, …<\/p>\n

To Be a Puddle: New Bicycles, Brevets, and such<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Puddle
\nAfter thinking that I was not going to have my new bicycle for Hell Week, I was pleasantly surprised to get a call on Tuesday that it was completed. I arranged to take off work on Friday so my husband and I could make the trip to Tennessee. I am excited as we head out. … I worry that the guys rode the course so much faster than we did and I know they are going to hurt me badly in Texas, but I convince myself that we will adapt as we have in previous years. …<\/p>\n

GREASE MONKEY WIPES: Jack’s First Tri<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Tim
\nI was, after all, fresh off a 1600 meter run victory and bronze in the 3200 at the Texas High School Championship Relays. How hard could a little tri be? I thought I knew all there was to know about swimming, biking, and running. …<\/p>\n

San Marcos American Legion Post 144 to host cyclists April 6 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c San …<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.myhosttoday.com
\nSan Marcos \u00e2\u20ac\u201d San Marcos American Legion Post 144 will host a dinner for the men and women participating in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ride 2 Recovery\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bicycle ride’s second annual Texas Challenge Tuesday, April 6, at 6 p.m. at the San Marcos Conference …<\/p>\n

Coming Back Out of The Saddle With Armstrong: Andrew Armstrong’s …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Andrew
\nAfter three weeks pretty much off and out with the crud\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or sinus infection \u00e2\u20ac\u201c bronchitis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c sinus infection triple whammy, I started training again the second half of this week.\u00c2\u00a0 My last day of doing any hard riding or working out was on Sunday, February 7th, and after 24 days without intensity due to resting or just putzing around on easy rides for one to just under two hours I did a workout…<\/p>\n

One last West Texas post \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Marathon | The Path Less Pedaled<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Laura
\nAfter a couple of delightful days in Big Bend National Park, we began the long ride north to Marathon. Normally, the winds would have been at our backs. But, a storm decided to blow in, and we crazily decided to just push through. (Note to self: The next time you wake up to howling winds, just go back to sleep!) After spending a night at Stilwell Ranch, we slogged 45 very long miles…<\/p>\n

22nd Annual Beauty and Beast Bicycle Tour<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Jacksonville Daily Progress
\nThe event is expecting over 700 cyclists and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the East Texas Food Bank. The Tour will be Saturday, March 20 beginning …<\/p>\n

Discovering America on 2 Wheels: Big thicket Super 8 in Kountze Tx<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Wills on Wheels
\nI’m at the northernmost point of my 400-mile Bicycle Tour through Southeast Texas and am currently at the Big Thicket Super 8 in Kountze Tx. I posted a video to YouTube on the Big Thicket Super 8. …<\/p>\n

McKinney Velo Club: Lago Day Two & Texas Tech HS Races<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Doc
\nAlthough Justin, a McKinney High sophomore, is not quite a year into his bicycle racing career, he raced like a true veteran in men’s HS B division races in Lubbock. On Saturday, Justin won the opening road race and then took 2nd in the …<\/p>\n

Life, Language, and Bicycling.: Let the races (and disease) begin.<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Adraper
\nSo I had my first collegiate bicycle race last weekend and it was a lot of fun. It was in Lubbock, Texas tech hosted. It was very well organized, and everything but the road race was extremely technical. That included a time trial and …<\/p>\n

Rise Across Texas Challenge \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Day 2 \u00c2\u00ab ReOverThinking<\/strong><\/a>
\nby kipmcc<\/p>\n

\"Gov\/
\nRick Perry, The Governor of Texas, joined us for the entire ride today (see picture above). Two thoughts: Lesson learned: whenever possible, ride with the Governor\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the police escort rocks; The Gov can ride for real (wish I could say the …<\/p>\n

Bicyclists Will Pedal 850 Miles Across Texas in the Rise Across …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby PR Newswire
\nMotivated by the physical challenge and the desire to see Texas from the seat of a bike, the cyclists are driven even more by the mission of the ride: to raise funds for the nonprofit Rise Schools of Texas. …<\/p>\n

Cycling Diary: Wind Wind go Away<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Cycling Diary
\nAnother gorgeous day in North Texas with the exception of the south wind. I waited for the group right by my house. It is very exciting to see them come up the road knowing I will be jumping into the pack. Talked with Steve a bit and …<\/p>\n

Cyclists\u00c2\u00a0 Pedal Toward Five-Million-Dollar Goal in Rise Across …<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.competitor.com
\nCyclists will ride across Texas, from east to west, to raise money for Rise Schools. Photo: Courtesy Rise Across Texas<\/p>\n

Texas is big. How big? You could drive from Texarkana in northeast Texas to Chicago, Illinois on the shores of the Great Lakes in about the same time it would take you to get from Texarkana to El Paso, on Texas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 southwestern corner.<\/p>\n

So when organizers designed the Rise Across Texas Challenge bike ride, they naturally had to give it Texas-sized dimensions. Starting Saturday, March 6 in the east Texas town of Orange…<\/p>\n

Pedal Pushers: Pedal Thru the Pines<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Roy and Christine
\nOur bike tour season has started, and to jump start the season, Pedal Thru the Pines at Bastrop, Texas is an excellent place to begin. Pedal Thru the Pines has all of our expectations of a good ride: scenery, plenty of hills, excellent support, and several choices of ride distances.
\n\"Pedal
\nThis year marked the 8th annual ride in support of the Family Crisis Center of Bastrop. As implied, the tour has plenty of volunteers; excellent support from the Police, Sheriff, and Fire Departments; and attentive ride marshals and SAG trucks. …<\/p>\n

The B-log: Piece #2<\/strong><\/a>
\nby PunchintheCRUX
\nYesterday was a good mountain bike ride and I discovered some crazy trails at Memorial, borderline unrideable but I tried anyways. Maybe it would be a good paydirt effort to get them into shape. While I was out riding Lauren chopped 9 inches of her hair off and she’s gonna donate it to Locks of Love. …<\/p>\n

Team San Angelo: Spring is almost here!<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Bill Cullins
\n…I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a lot more folks riding Burma Road over the past few weeks. For those of you new to San Angelo, Burma is a favorite local ride that has a number of short but moderately steep hills. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great natural interval session \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 work the up hills hard and then recover on the descents. Most people start their Burma ride in or at the edge of San Angelo, and ride Arden Road out west of town until they reach the Burma turn off. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a link to the Burma route, although the ride can be longer or shorter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trinity Bicycles to the Rescue from Rat Trap Press A few days ago I mentioned that bloggers, and cross country bike tourists Russ Rocca and Laura Crawford (The Path Less Pedaled and The Epicurean Cyclist) will be riding into Fort …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[1582,1580,1578,702,258,660,1539,1581,1231,1579,1544,1442,1263,147,1577,1404],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-adraper","tag-andrew-armstrong","tag-baytown-gator-ride","tag-beauty-and-the-beast-bike-tour","tag-bike-dfw","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-discovering-america-on-2-wheels","tag-path-less-pedaled","tag-pedal-thru-the-pines","tag-ride-2-recovery","tag-rise-across-texas-challenge","tag-team-san-angelo","tag-texas-hell-week","tag-texas-high-school-cycling-league","tag-trinity-bicycles","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-14t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}