{"id":4386,"date":"2010-04-04T22:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2010-04-04T22:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T03:12:05","slug":"daily-news-roundup-april-4th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/daily-news-roundup-april-4th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup April 4th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bicycle.net\/2010\/early-season-shake-down\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EARLY SEASON SHAKE-DOWN<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by System6<br \/>\nSaturday morning was fine time for a killing.<\/p>\n<p>It being early April, in much of the country riding and racing is still hit-and-miss.\u00c2\u00a0 You get a beautiful day, but it arrives on Wednesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Then by Saturday it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blowing wind and cold rain.\u00c2\u00a0 For those of us primarily chasing fun and fitness and hoping mostly to make a good showing at the weekly shop ride or local crit, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mentally challenging this far into the year to face yet another indoor spin session.\u00c2\u00a0 Great weather teases us \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just not when we can take advantage of it. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/adventuresofkenday.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/adventuresofkenday.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/crashes-of-spring.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adventures of Ken: Beware the Crashes of Spring<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Ken<br \/>\nAt the start of the race, these Gods were already mad. The biggest and most evil of the cycling Gods is Wind. He frequently rears his ugly head in Texas road races and tends to get angrier and stronger as races progress. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/news\/23050829\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cancer Survivor Rides Bike Cross-Country To Raise Awareness<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby KFOX El Paso<br \/>\nEL PASO, Texas &#8212; At the age of 35, Todd Colitti was diagnosed with a disease that typically affects men in their 50s. Now, 10 years later, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.courier-gazette.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-gazette.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/04\/news_by_readers\/doc4bb61bc36f9d5162567705.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas\u00c2\u00a0 Roadhouse to Benefit MS<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby McKinney Courier Gazette<br \/>\nTexas Roadhouse is donating 20% of their meal proceeds from that day for those that bring in a flyer about the event to the Blazing Saddles Cycling team who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EARLY SEASON SHAKE-DOWN from Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything by System6 Saturday morning was fine time for a killing. It being early April, in much of the country riding and racing is still hit-and-miss.\u00c2\u00a0 You get a beautiful day, but <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/daily-news-roundup-april-4th-texas-bicycling-2\/\"><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":[78,5253,1474,1668,1667],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-ms150","tag-news","tag-ronde-von-manda","tag-texas-roadhouse","tag-todd-colitti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-18K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}