B-geO Magnolia Miles – Magnolia, TX

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B-geO Magnolia Miles
Presented by Holy Name Passionist Retreat Center and The Magnolia Area Chamber of Commerce
Magnolia, TX
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Online Registration Will Open Friday, October 01, 2010 at 12:01 AM ET
23 Mile Ride
8:00 AM $30

41 Mile Ride
8:00 AM $35

71 Mile Ride
8:00 AM $25
B-GeO Magnolia Miles is an MS150 Recommended bicycle ride with 3 routes through the beautiful Magnolia countryside. We listened to your comments from 2009 and noticed which routes were most heavily used. Magnolia is nestled in the Southwest corner of Montgomery County, just Northwest of Houston.

B-geo Magnolia

Texas State Team Time Trial Championships – Floresville, TX

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Texas State Team Time Trial Championships 2010
Presented by Bicycle Heaven
Floresville, TX
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Online Registration Closes Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM ET
Over $1,000 in Cash!!!
Category Start Order is same as order above in Registration Table (top to bottom). First team off at 7:01AM. Teams at 2 minute intervals. Teams seeded in reverse order of registration. First team to register in any given category will be the last to go in their respective category. Course is open to traffic. Teams are expected to stay to the right of the lane as much as possible the entire route. When avoiding debris or passing other riders – do so with caution (make sure there isn’t a car creeping up behind you).

The Team Time Trial course will be the same as the Individual Time Trial course.

Cross category and cross-age group combinations are allowed subject to the following rules:
1.  For solely categroy-based races, team must race category of hightest categorized rider.  (E.g. team of cat 2s and 3s must race the cat 2 race)
2.  For junior age-based races, team must race category of the eldest (male) rider.
3.  For other age-based races, team must race the category of the youngest (male) rider.

Park in and around the Floresville Town Square.

Texas State Individual Time Trial Championships – Floresville, TX

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Texas State Individual Time Trial Championships 2010
Presented by Bicycle Heaven
Floresville, TX
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Online Registration Closes Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:00 PM ET
Over $2,500 in cash and 30 state champions jerseys for the taking!!
Richest championship weekend in Texas history!!
Start Order same as Order of Categories Listed above in Registration Table (Top to Bottom). First rider off at 7:01AM. Riders at 30 second intervals. Riders seeded in reverse order of registration in their respective category entered, i.e. first rider to register is last to go in their category. Course is open to traffic. Riders are expected to stay in the shoulder or closest to edge of road as possible. When avoiding debris or passing other riders – do so with caution (make sure there isn’t a car creeping up behind you).

All races, whether 10, 20 or 40km, are an out-and-back format on the same combination of in-town and out-of-town farm roads. The 10km course simply turns around at about 3 miles out of town; the 20km turns around at about 6 miles and the 40km about 12 miles.

At this time, we are being vague about the exact location of the course. While the folks in Floresville have been more than fantastic to work with, we don’t want to wear out our welcome by inundating the town leading up the event. We appreciate your understanding on this aspect of the race.

July 8th Bike Ride – Wow! They Sure Dried Fast!

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On the way to work this morning I pretty much wrote off today for riding but on the way home I noticed the streets were pretty dry in my area so I began to think riding was possible. While the skies were overcast with the occasional break for the sun. Wind was a light 8 mph from the SE. Temperature felt cool when I left home at 84 degrees. Over the last two days the area had almost 8 inches of rain. This more than we usually have all month.

After one day off the bike due to the rain it was good to get back on. It is amazing how fast the streets dry off once the rain stops. I think it was still raining at 3:00 PM but by 6:30 PM I had to look closely to see signs of the rain. For a moment I was saying to myself “take today off and ride on Friday.” Friday is normally a rest day to prepare for Saturday’s long ride. The drying out changed my mind.

Today’s Ride Statistics:

  • miles = 22.86
  • riding time = 1:30:30
  • average pace = 3:58 min/mile
  • average speed = 15.2 mph
  • max speed = 20.0 mph
  • average cadence = 79.6 rpm
  • max cadence = 105 rpm
  • climb 156 ft., descend 153 ft., max elevation 109 ft.
  • July miles 126.33
  • YTD miles 2692.99

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