I waffled back and forth on which route to take today. I wanted to ride at least 37 miles in order to reach my March goal when I ride the LBJ100 on Saturday. I decided to ride to the north on a route I haven’t done in awhile: Loop 494 north to FM1485 to SR242 to FM1314 and then back home. I knew this route would be over 40 miles and it ended up at 45.26 miles. I averaged 16.2 mph with several 5 mile intervals 17 mph to 19 mph averages. Biking to the southeast would have been around 38 miles. The wind for the first 10 miles was in my face and I struggled to ride above 15 mph at times. When I reached New Caney and turned left onto FM1485 westbound the wind moved to my right rear quarter and I was able to pickup my speed. (see intervals 3 & 4) By the time I got to SR242 the road angled a little further south and the wind moved to my back. Intervals 5 to 7 I biked on on SR242 and FM1314 back to Porter. On FM1314 I expected some wind resistance but it wasn’t that much I was able to keep a high pace.
Stopping at the Stripes station on FM1314 at Valley Ranch Parkway I sat in the nice warm sun. The temperature was 68 when I started the ride at 12:27. The wind was not too strong coming from the north at 13 mph. I did not wear leg warmers thinking the temperature would warm up and the sun would keep the chill off the legs. The temperature did warm up to 73 by the time I returned home at 3:59 but the wind increased to 16 mph from the NNE with 23 mph gusts. My choice of a short and long sleeve jerseys under a windbreaker jacket was the correct one. I was comfortable most of the time except when I went into the shade for an extend time. The wind had a chill to it. There is a cool front moving through tonight bringing a 60% chance of rain tomorrow and a high of 60. I don’t think I will be biking tomorrow which is the reason I wanted to bike 40 miles or more today. Thursday warms up to 74 but there is a 100% chance of rain. Friday is a travel day to Fredericksburg for the LBJ100 on Saturday.
By Matt Peterson      thescoopblog.dallasnews.com
The city dedicated its first paved hiking and biking trail in a ceremony Monday.
The three-mile Red Oak Creek Trail connects several schools, neighborhoods and city parks and recreational facilities. RoeschCo Construction built the trail at a cost of $2.4 million.
The trail features several entry points, one of which is on…
Dallas may soon join other Texas cities in starting a bicycle sharing program, but the city’s initial proposed investment, some say, is hardly a confident endorsement of the idea.
Earlier this month, the Dallas Park and Recreation Board approved $125,000 for non-profit Friends of Fair Park to install and operate a bicycle rental program at Fair Park.
The $125,000, if approved by city council, would pay for a network of 15-20 bicycles.
Other cities, such as Fort Worth, have made larger initial investments in bike-sharing programs.
Last year, the City of Fort Worth spent more than a million dollars on installing the…
Dallas Cycling Trail Riders and Weekend Pub Crawlers
Saturday, March 29, 2014Â Â Â 10:00 AM
Dallas Bike Works
4875 W Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX (map)
I know a few of us are training for the upcoming MS-150, and I have a separate charity century the weekend before that. I need to get some serious training miles in! Depending on the weather, I’m aiming for at least 30 this Saturday. I may stick around and do even more, if that interests anyone. This will be a moderate…
Sunday, March 30, 2014Â Â Â 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
MADD Shelter – Murrell Park
4542 Green Oaks Drive, Flower Mound, TX (map)
Spring Trail Work Day on Northshore! 😀 You’ve been asking to help, you enjoy being outside with friends, and every time you pass a trail steward working on the trail you feel kinda guilty. 😳 We don’t mind, we love this stuff! Come on out to work, bond with the trail, and then ride like the wind after putting in a…
Sunday, April 13, 2014Â Â Â 9:30 AM
River Legacy Park
703 N.W. Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington, TX (edit map)
There will be a beginner clinic on Saturday the 15th of April 13th at 9:30am at River Legacy Park in Arlington. There is a “classroom” for about an hour or so, a mini-skills workshop for 30 minutes, and then a ride of an hour or more. So count on approximately 2.5 to 3 hours. The clinic is recommended for riders new to the sport. If you have never ridden a mountain bike before or have just started out riding, then this is for you. Beginner Clinics will consist of basic instruction including…
Sunday, March 30, 2014Â Â Â 9:30 AM
Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park
12138 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX (map)
We set up under the trees in the parking lot near the swimming pool.
New Spring/Summer hours to help when the weather gets warmer. Starting 3/9 we go to 9:30 am.
We know that this time change doesn’t work for everyone so we hope you considering hosting a ride for yourself and those who might want to ride at a different time or on a different day.
You do NOT have to be a ARR member to attend most club riders. You will need to sign a waiver and wear a helmets when riding.
This is for all levels of riders, which will break into groups according to ability. Beginners are welcome, and there will be no…
The Jazz Era Sunday Social is coming up this Sunday! An afternoon of jazz and lawn games, dancing and of course bicycling and picnicing, presented by the Art Deco Society of Dallas and Dallas Heritage Village.
Pull out your Sunday best – we’re heading to a Jazz Age picnic social
Sunday March 30th, 12-4pm
If you know the annual Lawn Party on Governor’s Island in New York City, you have an inkling of what this will be like. The Singapore Slingers will be performing, and Elaine Hewlett from the Rhythm Room will be teaching us some…
This past weekend I set out with Jan and Monte from FCS Cycling to Corsicana, Texas for The 2014 Arthrosurface Tour of Corsicana. This weekend I was going to race my legs out, see what needs to be worked on, and leave with a smile. I did just that, and then some. Stage 1 was at 9AM Saturday morning, an individual time trial for less than 5 miles, I have always hated TT’s so I figured I would just go and give it my best. The roads were ruff, really ruff, but that didn’t stop anyone, for 4.76 miles it was just you and the road, it was 1 direction…straight. It was great weather, the wind was a cross tail basically the whole way there with an uphill finish. I don’t like TT’s, at all, but when I like them they are longer, between 10 and 20 miles favor me the best, so I can get a good tempo going and just pound it out. The short, sprint ones don’t really work in my favor, no biggie though. I was able to knock the race out in 12 minutes and 12 seconds, I was really happy with that, till I saw my result, 6th place, 1 minute and 15 seconds off from the leader…I knew I would have to make the time up in the road race, because it wasn’t going to…
Watch Joel Hernandez lead this awesome morning ride of 18 recumbent cyclists!
Join us the last Saturday of every month at 8:30 am for the Richardson Bike Mart Recumbent Ride!
HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas (BRAIN) — Dallas-Fort Worth area retailer Cadence Cyclery recently celebrated the opening of its second store, located 32 miles from its original location in McKinney, Texas. The new 4,000 square-foot shop opened as a Giant Partner Store in late November.
Giant USA’s retail merchandising specialists worked with owner Chad Plumlee in the design of the store’s retail space to select flooring, lighting, wall coverings, graphics and messaging to highlight both the Cadence Cyclery and Giant brands.
“The nice, clean space Chad found provided us all with the opportunity to build a store and give Cadence Cyclery a new and exciting way to showcase bicycles and connect with the community,” said…
COLLEGE STATION, Texas Hundreds of wounded vets and their supporters from around the country converged in College Station Monday morning, gearing up for a 100-mile bicycle journey.
The ride from College Station to Georgetown was the second day of a ride around Texas that began in Houston on Sunday. Before the week is out, the group will have travelled around 590 miles.
Ride 2 Recovery, a group dedicated to improving the health and wellness of healing heroes worldwide, puts on the ride and others like it each year.
Nathan Green, who served with the U.S. Air Force in both Iraq and…
Day Two of the UnitedHealthcare Texas Challenge is the longest day of the Challenge and the first Century Day of the year. The continued improving weather kept the spirits of the riders up despite the long road ahead.
Project HERO Day is always an exciting part of any Challenge. We are able to showcase an important program within R2R and nearly all of the 50+ first time riders come from the Project HERO program and…
New video I edited. Its more about testing the new camera and Variable ND filter. I missed most of the race on count of the card filling up in about 18 minutes. Shot in Raw and Graded in DaVinci Resolve.
Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/89770954
GEORGETOWN — More than 200 injured vets rode into Georgetown Monday afternoon on a two-wheel ride through Central Texas to help injured veterans recover.
They are taking part in the 490-mile Ride to Recovery from Houston to Fort Worth. On Monday, they traveled more than 100 miles from College Station.
The ride is part of a program to help…
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Tuesday Ride – Promoting the Mighty Mujeres..o7'o Meet 5:30pm @ Hospital Parking Lot (Edgemere and lp375)… http://t.co/bvzRi08AKE
North Shore Trail is a 18 mile out and back trail located near Grapevine, Texas that features a lake and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, mountain biking & walking and is accessible year-round.
Reviews: By Nathan R. – Don’t be intimidated by the mountain bikers. The northshore trail was originally an equestrian trail before the horses were chased off by the hikers. Now we find the mountain bikers are chasing off the pedestrians, but a few simple tips can make this a great trail for everybody. The local mountain bike club does a great job maintaining these trails. And over the past few years they have cut almost 10 miles of additional trail making it a one way trail the whole way. When you run or hike here, go in the same direction as the bikes. This will more than cut in half the number of bikers you encounter. If you’re running it’s easier for a Bike to pass if you’re going in the same direction. Good bikers can pass if you hug the side of the trail without either party having to stop. Generally I don’t…
Bret and El Gato (Jonny) are in Corsicana, TX this weekend for the Arthrosurface Tour of Corsicana. Great shot of Bret where he is often found… off the front!!
There were 40 plus Violet Crown Club riders at the start of yesterday’s Rosedale Ride. It was perfect weather for the event and a good ride. Just before the ride, Immediate VC Past President, Andy Austin, talked to the crowd about Violet Crown’s long history with the Rosedale Ride. He mentioned that Bill Reams was an officer of the club when VC riders Kenny Lloyd and Richard Whittington along with their friend Al Godfrey first organized the ride 20 years ago. Bill…
After a day of full traveling we arrived at the Ride 2 Recovery registration and orientation, along with 200 healing Soldiers and Veterans from across the country. Seven of the participants are either active duty Soldiers currently serving at Fort Bliss or Veterans from El Paso.
(SFC Lori Kuzcmanski and our luggage as we wait for the shuttle at the airport)
The R2R mechanics quickly assembled all of our bicycles and fitted them to each cyclist before we toted them to our hotel rooms at the Marriott Greenspoint in…
EP Cyclists, helping El Paso cyclists ride faster & farther in a friendly amiable group, today’s ride was no exception. This Thursday we are challenging all EP Cyclists Women to come and ride in the womens pull ride. It will be a Intro/Intermediate control ride but women will pull all 27 miles, men can join the ride but they will have to ride in the back and…
This year’s UnitedHealthcare Texas Challenge featured a new start in the Gulf Coast town of Houston. It’s the hometown of Clay Hunt and we were excited to have Clay’s parents send off the R2R warriors as they headed out of town towards Aggieland, 85 miles away.
The towns along the new route have really embraced Ride 2 Recovery and are extremely happy to see the ride come through their area for the first time. Even though there is not as much support from the American Legion Auxiliary as…
Incredible weekend in Corsicana Texas racing with my teammates and friends. We worked through Texas chip seal, wet brick paved streets downtown, high winds, rain and hail today…all to land two of our boys on the podium! Robert Baatz and…
SHERMAN, TX — City officials say tough budget times mean Sherman doesn’t have the money to start up new park projects, but that didn’t stop something new from opening this weekend.
Volunteers stepped in to form the city’s first-ever mountain biking trail.
During the week, he’s a nurse anesthetist at TMC, but on the weekends, Sherman resident Jason Griffin hits the trails, often traveling to bike races around the state. But there wasn’t any…
Drove to Abilene for my first Steam N Wheels.
Met up with some of our club members.
It was very windy and seemed to be all up hill 🙁
I ended up 49th of 84 and 7th out of 11 in my age bracket.
Age bracket? 90% of the people that came in before me was my age or older……. where are the young people? The oldest gentleman ahead of me was 69 and he came in…
HOUSTON, TX – More than 200 veterans and their supporters gathered in north Houston for the 2014 UnitedHealthcare “Ride 2 Recovery.â€
It’s a weeks worth of riding starting out in Houston and after 490 miles of pedaling riders end up at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.
Seeing our wounded heroes conquering their physical challenges is inspiring, but sometimes it’s…
Earlier this week, a favorite blog of mine, “Lovely Bicycle,†wrote about beater bikes. Velouria’s angle was to spotlight a new line of inexpensive bikes with the brand name, “Beater,†that are designed to fill the same role as a run-of-the-mill beater bike would fill.
And it got me thinking — I don’t really have a beater bike of my own, do I? If I do need a bike I can hop on for a trip to the store, or to run an errand or two, or to serve as transportation in the rain, I don’t really have anything to fill that role, do I?
And then it occurred to me — I do. I’ve got that mountain bike. The one I never ride. The one I put the rear rack on because I was going to…
By TOM BENNING, Staff Writer      www.dallasnews.com
A proposed hike-and-bike trail through one of Dallas’ most scenic, and often overlooked, areas is heading down the path to construction.
Dallas County commissioners last week OK’d $3.7 million to help build the Chalk Hill Trail, approving an agreement with the city of Dallas to develop the four-mile corridor in west Oak Cliff.
The trail, long a focus for County Commissioner Elba Garcia, would follow an abandoned railroad line north from DART’s Westmoreland Station to around the intersection of West Davis Street and Chalk Hill Road.
Runners and cyclists are still a few years away from…
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Do you ride your bike in Mansfield? Important council meeting tomorrow: http://t.co/Xu6fzKz6Xp
FORT BLISS — Ready to go! My Specialized Ruby bike is in several pieces, packed up, and ready for travel.
A special thanks to Marc Cattapan, Adaptive Sports Director with the Fort Bliss Warrior Transition Unit, who was kind enough to take take on the task.
Thank goodness there’s a team of mechanics waiting for us at the Ride 2 Recovery registration on Sunday! They’re “at the ready” to help put bikes together for the challenge participants and tackle all mechanical issues that could occur (flat tires, etc.). I’m not a big fan of changing my own tires, so that works well!
Two days to go until registration. I taught my final indoor cycling class early this…
Hundreds of cyclists will make their way through College Station Sunday and Monday as part of the Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge.
The participants are riding from Houston to Arlington as part of a program that helps raise money for injured veterans and their rehabilitation.
Traffic could be affected along Wellborn Road and…
Apparently I misunderstood the forecast for today’s weather. I thought that more than once I heard that thunderstorms were scheduled to rumble in some time after midnight, along with rain.
With an electric wet forecast I figured I would not be swimming or getting any hot tub hydrotherapy this morning, let alone a bike ride in the noon time frame.
I figured wrong. No thunder, no rain, at least so…
Author: Kelci Johnston, News Associate Produce      www.click2houston.com
KINGWOOD, Texas – A teenager was hospitalized in serious condition after a car hit him while he was riding his bike in a Kingwood neighborhood.
Police said the 15-year-old pulled out in front of a minivan heading down Northpark Drive at around 9:15 Friday night.
According to reports, the driver did not see the bicyclist because of the thick forest along the side of…
Background:
A long, long time ago (let’s just say longer than some of my competitors from last weekend have been alive), I was an aspiring young Houston triathlete who had just finished an inconspicuous college running career at the University of Houston. Bob McCowen, the owner of Southwest Schwinn (aka Southwest Cyclery) and all-around great guy, helped me get my start in biking at the time. A couple years later, his son James McCowen told me about a 2-day stage race that he was directing for SWCC. “You should give it a tryâ€, he said, “it’s a time-based stage race with a pretty long time trial – you would do pretty goodâ€.
Fast forward to a year ago, after dropping 2 sports, I finally took his sage advice (I have never been a quick learner). The Fayetteville Stage Race is a race I’ve done for 2 years in a row now. In last year’s race, my stage win on Sunday’s stage in the Mens 3/4 field moved me into 5th overall and more…
Fri 3/28    star Friday Morning Ride    8:00 AM – 11:00 AM    Abner Jackson Park and Ride on 2004 near Lake Road
Sat 3/29    star Saturday Morning Ride    8:00 AM – 11:00 AM    Lake Jackson Recreation Center
Sun 3/30    star Sunday Morning Ride    8:00 AM – 11:00 AM    Park and Ride on 288 and 35 in Angleton- meet at Bucee’s…
When: Wednesday, March 26th at 5:00 pm.
Where: Deno’s on their patio at 7224 Independence Pkwy. (NE corner of Independence and Legacy…in the parking lot where Bikes and Bagels meet)
Why: Becasue we are getting our legs back in cycling mode, but we must not…
New Event Added to Texbiker.net Calendar
New Bike Event: Camino205 Gravel Grinder – Palestine, TX: When: Sat Oct 4, 2014 6am to 4pm CDTWhere: Palestin… http://t.co/RePsq9bgHN
