Iron Haus Time Trial Series – San Antonio, TX

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Iron Haus Time Trial Series -APRIL 2011
Presented by Ciclismo SA , Britton’s Bicycle Shop, Jimmy Britton
San Antonio, TX
Saturday, April 02, 2011
Online Registration Will Open Monday, March 07, 2011 at 12:01 AM ET
The 2011 Iron Haus Time Trial Series is a series of 8 races, taking place on the first weekend of each month from March through October.  All entry fee schedules will be similar to the initial time trial posted.

Early registration is available at Britton’s Bicycle Shop (210.656.1655) during normal bike shop hours until 7:00 p.m.  March 4, 2011

Race morning registration is available beginnning at 7:30 a.m. in the Iron Haus entrance patio area.

The on-line registration will close at 11:00 pm on the Thrusday evening before the race.

SATURDAY    -   April 2nd , 2011
The second event is a 20/40km Time Trial on Saturday April 2nd, 2011,  starting at Iron Haus Fitness in Castroville and heading up FM 471 and back.  The Start / Finish Line will be located in front of Iron Haus on FM 471 and be an out and back course.

The first rider will take off at 8:01 AM.  20k participants will be the first to go and the 40k participants will follow with the first 40k rider at no earlier than  8:30 a.m. .  The course is an out and back along FM 471.  The turn around will be marked and a recorder in place to validate the turn.  The Time Trial will be recorded and times will be posted 20 minutes following the last finisher.

The start times will be assigned in the order of category and time of registration. Juniors and 20k participants will have the earliest start times.  Teams will be the first off following the 20K participants.

The teams  will start  last and must have  at least 2 and no more than 6 riders.  Team time is based on the last team rider to finish.

Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 3rd

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Waco Bicycle Club Rides
Thursday
Thursday Beginning Cyclist Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/beginner More

Cameron Park Beginner Mountain Bike Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Mountain/beginner More

Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
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Lone Star Cyclists Mar. Club Rides

Lone Star Cycling March Rides

Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
March 6, 2011
How Exercise Keeps You Young (and Prolongs Your Life)

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has shown that exercise prevents aging in mice programmed to grow old rapidly (The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 22, 2010).  The exercising mice did not have the expected shrinkage with aging of their…

Fatal auto-pedestrian accident in Orange County
by KFDM-TV News
ORANGE COUNTY- The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the name of a bicycle rider who was killed when the driver of a pickup truck ran into him from behind. The DPS says Kevin Caudle, 28, or Orange, died at about 8 pm Wednesday. …

Malone Wins Second Consecutive Marathon Champion Bike Series
by Blanco County News
This was the first race of the season for Dustin, who rides for Hammer Head Bicycles out of Austin. Bruce said all the racers who participated in the Texas Marathon Series wish to thank Hill Country Bicycle works for sponsoring the series. …

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 3/3/11 – 3/9/11
from Austin On Two Wheels
Dedicated to keepin’ yer Texas race dollars in Texas, The Muddy Outlaw Dash and Chainring Challenge is a 3.1 …. Austin and Texas Bicycle Framebuilders …

Armstrong youth team rolls into Solvang
by Santa Maria Times

Youth Team
The Austin, Texas-based team’s season starts March 31 and runs through … The team’s primary sponsors are Trek Bicycle Corporation and Livestrong, …

Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the Mardi Gras Parade
March 2, 2011 in Bike News, Events, Oak Cliff
Bike Friendly Oakcliff
Ride with Bike Friendly Oak Cliff in the third-annual Oak Cliff Mardi Gras Parade. 105 people have RSVP’d on Facebook here, and more are welcome to pedal on up the day of. It’s a family friendly ride, so everyone’s invited. We’ll start at 4 p.m. at…

Cycling notebook: Critics make TPC put brakes on plans
from HoustonChronicle.com — Cycling by Dale Robertson
It would not be business as usual at Friday’s H-GAC Transportation Policy Council meeting. Advocates for better pedestrian and bicycle mobility answered an urgent call to arms and, by raising a measure of civilized Cain at the open-to-the-public session, they were able to stave off — for the moment…

(67 x 3) + 74 = 83
from Musings of Captain Justice by Gil Jones
If you don’t follow that math, it’s understandable. But if you take a geezer-squad of three guys 67 years young (two of them precisely that age) and one of 74 years, and put them on bicycles out to prove nothing, …

Houston Ride: Tuesday/Thursday West End Ride
from Texas Racing Life by Ken
Most of my training is done alone because I feel I can really concentrate on the correct intervals and duration.  Sometimes I get really bored and want to ride/race with people on the weekdays.  In Austin, there was always the Tuesday Nighter, a great group ride that would leave from downtown Austin and then race around a…

For the first time this year I was over dressed… – March 3rd Bike Ride

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For the first time this year I was over dressed for a ride. I was expecting the 70 degrees at the start of the ride to drop down to 60 by the time I got back but it only went to 68. The fleece jersey, full finger gloves, windbreaker jacket and leg warmers were more than enough. March weather is still acting like a lamb although Saturday’s weather could rough things up a little. I want to do the Baytown Gator Ride but not in the rain. As of now this is what the forecast looks like:

Saturday
tstorms Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers early in the morning…then showers and thunderstorms likely in the morning. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent in the morning decreasing to 50 percent in the afternoon.

Tonight the weather was mostly cloudy skies with a SE 12 mph breeze. The ride was uneventful but challenging at times when I was going into the wind. The Motobecane 700HT gearing is pretty low so I can hit over 100 RPM but not have much speed.

Mileage report:

  • March miles 28.91
  • YTD miles 554.09

3-3-2011 Ride Data and Map

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Daily News Roundup March 2nd – Texas Bicycling

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Houston Bicycle Club
Upcoming Rides
When: Program: Tuesday 03/08/11 at: 7:00 PM Boone’s Cycles – 5318 Crawford Joy Boone will tell us about plans for the Houston Bicycle Museum. Also, Kenneth Jessett will talk about the upcoming Bessie’s Creek 24 Hour race, May 27-28 Next Club Meeting…

Fort Worth Bicycling Association
Next Meeting March 7
The National MS Society, Bicycles Inc and Jodi Ryan will be talking about the 2011 Frisco to Ft. Worth Bike MS Tour. George Buxbaum from the Lonestar Chapter of the National MS Society will cover procedures for signing up for the ride as well as the different options for this year’s ride, such as Day 1 and Day 2 riding choices. Rodney Bailey from Bicycles Inc will talk about…

Violet Crown Sports Association
Thanks to everyone for another successful Violet Crown Sports Association Webberville Cycloscross presented by Louis Garneau & The Law Office of Bradley Houston.  See Scott Yates’s photo gallery of the event. …

Retired nurse to bike cross-country
by San Diego Union Tribune
The ride will include four days in California, six in Arizona, four in New Mexico, 17 in Texas and five in Louisiana. The trip is scheduled to be completed April 29, exactly eight weeks after it begins, on the East Coast. This will be the second such …

Fort Worth City Council adopts Safe Passing Ordinance
by Pegasus News
Thankfully, instead of giving up, the Texas Bicycle Coalition began working on a strategy to get the law passed as an ordinance in as many cities as possible, to keep the pressure on for statewide protection. Many other states, including our neighbors …

Pace Bend Race & Festival Details
from bicyclesportshop.com
A 5k ride for beginners led by Austin Cycle Camp; A friendly ride for intermediate riders led by the Bicycle Sport Shop Mountain Bike Team; The Bike Texas …

UTPD catches crooks with bait bikes
by Austin News

UTPD
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The University of Texas Police Department is using technology to fight a big spike in bicycle thefts. Thieves stole 36 bicycles on campus in January 2011, according to police, up from 6 in January 2010. The campus saw a total of 185 …

Share the Road donates bicycle signs to TxDOT
by Amarillo.com
By Globe-News staff Share the Road Amarillo, a road safety advocacy group, recently donated state-approved bicycle signs to the local office of Texas Department of Transportation. The signs have been installed in 12 locations outside the Amarillo city …

Recreation calendar, sign-up sheet
by San Antonio Express
Bicycling: Apr. 30, 8 am, Comal Elementary Ride, 28, 48, 55 and 72 miles, parking lot across from Comal Elementary School. Bicycling: May 1, 8 am, Castroville Ride, 11, 25 and 40 miles, park-and-ride off highway 90 by Sammy’s Restaurant in Castroville. …

MCDC awards biannual grants, paves way for spring events
by McKinney Courier Gazette
Last year, participants included more than 300 cyclists from 56 Texas cities and from places such as Australia, New Zealand and Mexico. Main Street Program Director Ty Lakes is hopeful that the word has spread since a year ago. “When cyclists race …

Results Posted
from Texas High School Cycling League by League Director
We had a great first weekend of racing at the UT races in Austin, Texas.

The competition was tough and we saw a lot of brand new racers competing in their first ever bicycle race so the season looks to be a lot of fun and full of fierce competition. …