{"id":1345,"date":"2008-12-04T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2008-12-04T23:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T05:30:30","slug":"cyclocross-north-texas-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/cyclocross-north-texas-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclocross North Texas Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By DAN X. McGRAW \/ The Dallas Morning News<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:dmcgraw@dallasnews.com\">dmcgraw@dallasnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\">High-speed crashes, muddy courses and screaming fans sound more like the makings of a monster-truck rally than a cycling event. But cyclo-cross isn&#8217;t your typical bike ride around the block. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\">A cross between mountain biking and road cycling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with a few makeshift obstacles in between \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the sport of cyclo-cross has moved into North Texas.Each Tuesday, Bill Cody Park in Garland transforms into a course riddled with caution tape, logs and 15-inch wooden barriers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><span class=\"vitstorybody\"><a title=\"Dallas Morning News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/120408dnmetcyclo.37663cc.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more at the Dallas Morning News.<\/strong><\/a> There is a video as well.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DAN X. McGRAW \/ The Dallas Morning News dmcgraw@dallasnews.com High-speed crashes, muddy courses and screaming fans sound more like the makings of a monster-truck rally than a cycling event. But cyclo-cross isn&#8217;t your typical bike ride around the block. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/cyclocross-north-texas-style\/\"><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":[433],"tags":[5262,205],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyclocross","tag-cyclocross","tag-dallas-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-lH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}