{"id":2143,"date":"2009-03-31T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2009-03-31T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T03:59:44","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-march-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-march-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup March 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bcullins.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/only-184-more-days-until-cyclocross.html\" href=\"http:\/\/bcullins.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/only-184-more-days-until-cyclocross.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Team San Angelo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bill Cullins<br \/>\nA blog style newsletter for cycling, running, and multisport in the San Angelo, Texas region. The blog is updated weekly unless someting really important happens. &#8230; Take a look at the events listing at the end of this post to see the events, and visit the Road Lizards and San Angelo Bicycle web sites for a full listing. Goodfellow triathlete Kathy Rakel did a great presentation at last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ASUFit Brown Bag luncheon. If you missed her session and need some motivation, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/03\/30\/race-report-enchanted-rock-extreme-duathlon\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/03\/30\/race-report-enchanted-rock-extreme-duathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Race Report: Enchanted Rock Extreme Duathlon | Austin On Two Wheels<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\nWe have photos of every participant in the bicycle phase, click the image to see them. My Experience. For challenge and natural beauty, this race did not disappoint. First though, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say there were two instances of false advertising on this race. The first run was actually 5 miles, not 4, and the third leg of the race was advertised as a run. &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikingbis.com\/blog\/_archives\/2009\/3\/31\/4138717.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikingbis.com\/blog\/_archives\/2009\/3\/31\/4138717.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Biking Bis &#8211; Bicycle Touring and More :: What bicycling record &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Gene Bisbee<br \/>\nThe west-to-east solo record for Texas is 32 hours 20-minutes to cover 574 miles by Steve Born of Idaho. The east-west record holder for Delaware is Gerry Eddlemon who knocked out the 38-mile trip in 2 hours and 16 minutes. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.funhous3.com\/1985\/Crazy_Square_Wheeled_Bicycle\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funhous3.com\/1985\/Crazy_Square_Wheeled_Bicycle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Crazy Square-Wheeled Bicycle :: Cool<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M Physics Department&#8217;s students wanted to prove it&#8217;s not that crazy to build a square-wheeled bicycle and you can actually ride it quite smooth .. if you have a really bumpy road. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/tallladyonabike.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/day-24-march-29-sanderson-to-amistad.html\" href=\"http:\/\/tallladyonabike.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/day-24-march-29-sanderson-to-amistad.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tall Lady on a Bike: Day 24, March 29: Sanderson to Amistad (Del &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Carol Moehrke<br \/>\n&#8230; of training could prepare you, as it would be next to impossible to replicate the conditions which, combined, gave this ride its difficulty. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over, and I cheerfully proclaim that I will never visit this part of Texas again. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cyclophile.com\/2009\/03\/miles-and-miles-of-texas.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclophile.com\/2009\/03\/miles-and-miles-of-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cyclophile: Miles and Miles of Texas<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Speedo<br \/>\nI am very good about checking the weather reports before I go for a ride. I usually check two or three weather services to be sure. This served me well the last ride I went on. I rode north until I hit the front coming down and when I &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/laureybikes.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/oh-blessed-rest.html\" href=\"http:\/\/laureybikes.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/oh-blessed-rest.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laurey Bikes: Oh blessed rest!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Laurey<br \/>\nWe are in Campwood, Texas now. Seems that we have left West Texas and are now in Hill Country. Our elevation is considerably lower and we are now seeing lots of green. I&#8217;m not sure, but I might have seen a hint of blue, as in Bluebonnets. &#8230; We are only half way through that number of days on this ride. But I keep riding and my body keeps working and my bike keeps working and there we go. What a time. What a thing to do. What a life. Thanks for caring about this with me. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/trilife101.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/galveston-in-2-days.html\" href=\"http:\/\/trilife101.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/galveston-in-2-days.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tri Life 101: Galveston in 2 days!!!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Morgan<br \/>\nI have yet to find anything that can beat a 2 hour bike ride in 70 degree, sunny weather with light winds. It&#8217;s better than&#8230; well, you know. Sorry guys. We&#8217;ve got all our team plans finalized for this weekend. 7 of us will be staying at my mom&#8217;s home on the Strand on &#8230; Morgan: Texas, United States: I love adventure &#8211; anything outdoors will do, but triathlons are my favorite, and backpacking would be in a close second if I only had more TIME! View my complete profile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikingtolive.com\/there-he-blows\/\" href=\"http:\/\/bikingtolive.com\/there-he-blows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>There he blows! | Biking To Live<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Bryan<br \/>\nI also had to stop using the wind as an excuse because if I continued to do so I may never get a ride in here in Texas. That said, I got home, changed, make the quick drive to the train station, rode one stop to White Rock Station and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/impactnews.com\/southwest-austin\/calendar?task=view_detail&amp;agid=126&amp;year=2008&amp;month=05&amp;day=03&amp;catids=177\" href=\"http:\/\/impactnews.com\/southwest-austin\/calendar?task=view_detail&amp;agid=126&amp;year=2008&amp;month=05&amp;day=03&amp;catids=177\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bicycle and Pedestrian Summit Brainstorms the Region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Future<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Community Impact Newspaper<br \/>\nBicycle and pedestrian experts, advocates and members of the public from around the region are converging Saturday, May 3 to discuss the latest in planning and implementation of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, education, and advocacy. Part of the Austin Cycling Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bike Month activities, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Central Texas Bicycle and Pedestrian Summit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/gateway-parks-failing-boardwalks-fort.html\" href=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/gateway-parks-failing-boardwalks-fort.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Durango Texas: Gateway Park&#8217;s Failing Boardwalks &amp; Fort Woof<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Durango<br \/>\nA mountain bike trail has supposedly been built, but the one mountain bike trail like spot I&#8217;ve seen does not look promising. With no one riding it. I think the Gateway Park bike trail may have been abandoned. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mtbracenews.com\/2009\/03\/tmbra-spring-race-4-warda-texas.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbracenews.com\/2009\/03\/tmbra-spring-race-4-warda-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MTB Race News: TMBRA Spring Race #4: Warda, Texas<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby mtbracenews.com<br \/>\nFawley has only attended 2 of the 4 races so far this spring, claiming he is concentrating on the road more than mountain bike racing in 2009. Since this race was only an hour from his home town of Austin, TX, he decided to show up. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team San Angelo by Bill Cullins A blog style newsletter for cycling, running, and multisport in the San Angelo, Texas region. The blog is updated weekly unless someting really important happens. &#8230; Take a look at the events listing at <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-march-31st\/\"><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":[14],"tags":[660],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-yz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}