Lions Biking for Sight – Montgomery, TX

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Lions Biking for Sight 2011
Presented by Presented by the Houston Cy-Fair Lions Club
Montgomery, TX
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Online Registration Closes Thursday, September 08, 2011 at 7:00 PM ET
Cycle through some of the most beautiful Texas landscape in Montgomery and Grimes Counties. The 24 mile route takes you past an exotic animal farm, while the 40, 62, and 100 mile routes take you through the Sam Houston National Forest. The 62 and 100 mile routes have hills, perfect training for the MS:  Valero Bike to the Beach bike ride.

The ride begins at 8 AM at the Montgomery Athletic Complex Cycle through some of the most beautiful Texas landscape in Montgomery and Grimes counties. The 24 mile route takes you past an exotic animal farm, while the 40, 62 and 100 mile routes take you through the Sam Houston National Forest. The 62 and 100 mile routes have hills, perfect training for the Bike MS: Valero Ride to the River Directions: From Houston, take I-45 north to Conroe. Go west on State Highway 105 across Lake Conroe. Two miles past the intersection of State Highway 105 and FM 149, the athletic Complex will be on the right. Please follow directions for parking.

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for July 5th

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Houston Bicycle Club Ride
Sun 07/17/11
Urban Challenge Ride
The Urban Challenge Rides are in-town group rides, faster and longer than the EZ Rides, each time taking you to different parts of the city each time. You should be able to maintain a pace of 15 mph and above for a distance of 40 to 45 miles, usually with one rest stop. More

The Bicycle Dividend
By NANCY FOLBRE        Today’s Economist
Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

More Americans are biking or walking to work these days, in part because public-sector investment is improving the infrastructure they need to get there safely. Further public investments in bike paths and bike lanes are likely to offer a big social payoff. …More

Recap Of The Red, White and Bike Ride on Suburban Assault
by dickdavid        Bike Friendly Richardson

I did a recap of the Red, White and Bike Ride on Suburban Assault. Head over there if you want to read about it and see a few pics. Unfortunately, because I lead the group, I didn’t get very many pics of the actual ride. I hope other folks will have pics up soon. More

Fan journeying to all 30 ballparks on bicycle
Washington resident enjoying adventure of a lifetime
By Doug Miller / MLB.com
Darren O’Donnell, like any baseball fan worth his Cracker Jacks, is keeping score.

He knows that since his season began at Seattle’s Safeco Field on April 8, he’s among the league leaders in several categories, such as:… More

Carol Jean Vosburgh cleans up at National Senior Games
By Bryan Burns, Times Staff Writer
Carol Jean Vosburgh of Treasure Island recently participated in the National Senior Games in Houston, Texas, and came away with a handful of medals.

Vosburgh, competing in the women’s 65-69 age group, placed first in the 20K cycling road race in 41 minutes, 7.15 seconds to win by more than 16 seconds. …More

Texas Bicycling Daily News Roundup for July 4th

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Hill Country Bicycle Touring Club
July 10, 2011 8:30 am
McAllister / Salado Creek Ride
McAllister Park, 13102 Jones Maltsberger Rd, San Antonio

Rides & Events – GHORBA
On the GHORBA calendar we have the folllowing GHORBA events in July:
Regular (1st. Tue of month) trail work party at Memorial Park, Tue. July 5th, 6:00 pm.
A group ride down at Jack Brooks Park next Saturday July 9th, 9:00 am.
Member meeting on July 11th, location TBD so we’re open for suggestions.
A ride at the long and rolling Double Lake trails on July 31st. More

Bicyclists plan to finish cross-country ride cut short by crash 25 years ago
By James T. Mulder / The Post-Standard
…On July 29, Cywinski and his friends will set out to complete the last 2,504 miles of the 8,141-mile they started in 1986. They expect to finish the ride Aug. 22 in Buffalo.

The ride will begin in Seguin, Texas, outside San Antonio, the same place it ended 25 years ago. …More

Breakfast at Barbecs – Plano Bicycle Association

Ready to roll down to Barbecs on White Rock Lake to celebrate Independence Day as only cyclists can.  Notice Duane’s retro PBA jersey.  Somewhere around 28 years old, and it still fits! More

MV Congrats & Condolences – McKinney Velo Club
by Doc

Congratulations to MV members:
– Justin Hicks on a great junior profile in the July issue of the Racing Post: http://www.theracingpost.us/images/Issues/July%20%202011%20Web.pdf;

– Jake the Snake Wood for his win last Tuesday in the ‘C’ race; a much deserved victory after the Snake lost a chance to win about a month ago when he flatted out of a two man break that had a huge… More

Benefit Concert/ Share the ROAD!-Jack Brown
Old Tascosa Cycling Club
kennyg writes “   Singer/songwriter JACK BROWN will be sharing his witty and thoughtful adult comtemporary music on July 31 (Sunday) in a private concert to benefit Share the ROAD! Jack, who is based in Boise, ID, will be playing new and older songs from his collection of three CD’s featuring his original compositions including THE ROAD TO HAPPY… More

Early morning ride to set up the parade – July 4th Bike Ride

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I left home at 6:43 AM so that I could get back in time for the Kingwood 4th of July Parade. A benefit was the temperature had not reached the 90’s yet and in fact was a nice 77 degrees at the start and 81 at the finish. The bad side was the humidity was higher than the temperature. Whenever I looked down while I was riding the sweat would pour off of my chin. When I stopped in Huffman to refill my water bottle I spent most of my time mopping water from my arms and face. I got back home at 8:40 AM so I had to hustle to get cleaned up in time for the 10 AM parade start.I saw two other bikers on FM1960 over Lake Houston.

This picture is the official start of the parade. The picture does not include the cheers and clapping as the color guard marched by.

Kingwood 4th of July 2011 Color Guard

The gallery further down has a sampling of pictures from the parade.

Today’s 28.32 mile ride put me at the 105.51 mile mark for the month. My average speed was 15.3 mph and a max speed of 23.1 mph. Average cadence was 79.2 RPM. Year to date mileage is 2944.60. Last night I entered the mileage from 2006 to 2008 into SportTracks. I scanned my 2006-2008 paper cycling logs as well. This was something I thought about for awhile and finally did. The Brother scanner did it easily. I did cheat somewhat in that I just entered the monthly total miles rather than the daily details.

7-4-2011 Bike Ride Data and Route Map

7-4-2011 Home Weather Finish

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The pictures of the parade can be enlarged by selecting the picture list link. The turnout was huge. The popular float was the one with the power washer spraying the crowd.

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