{"id":2179,"date":"2009-04-09T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2009-04-09T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:37:06","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.forthoodsentinel.com\/story.php?id=597\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forthoodsentinel.com\/story.php?id=597\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Road 2 Recovery: Wounded keep giving; Soldiers keep cheering &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Fort Hood Sentinel<br \/>\nDiv., and about 11 other members of the post&#8217;s Team Army cycling squad, planned to ride to Waco with the Road 2 Recovery Texas Challenge wounded warriors and their other supporters. The Fort Hood cycling team &#8230;. Unlike most of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wounded, Wagner rides a standard bicycle instead of a hi-tech modified two-wheeler. Regardless, he averages 12000-15000 miles a year in support of wounded veterans. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing this to show people life goes on after an amputation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/331miles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/live-like-you-race.html\" href=\"http:\/\/331miles.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/live-like-you-race.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>331 Miles: Live Like You Race<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Google Alerts &#8211; Texas bicycle race by 331 Miles<br \/>\nIn several ways, it hasn&#8217;t been a good few weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 As my loyal readers know, I&#8217;m out of work.\u00c2\u00a0 We have funds, but they&#8217;re not limitless.\u00c2\u00a0 About a week ago, Vic and I decided to convert a sun room into a bedroom, and expand the nearby 1\/2 bath into a full bath. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/booksnbikes.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/09\/navasota-tx-to-cleveland-tx-73-miles-1896-total-miles\/\" href=\"http:\/\/booksnbikes.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/09\/navasota-tx-to-cleveland-tx-73-miles-1896-total-miles\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Navasota, TX to Cleveland, TX &#8211; 73 miles; 1896 total miles \u00c2\u00ab The &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby booksnbikes<br \/>\nPeggy was feeling better and decided to ride today. The day dawned heavily overcast and we set out in rain gear. In Anderson Texas, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Home of the Fighting Owls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I stopped to take a picture of a patch of Bluebonnets. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/river-legacy-mountain-bike-trail.html\" href=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/river-legacy-mountain-bike-trail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Durango Texas: River Legacy Mountain Bike Trail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Durango<br \/>\nAlso River Legacy is a more enjoyable ride than Sansom Park, although it&#8217;s not near as challenging as Sansom Park. River Legacy is much prettier, being that it is river bottoms, dirt trails and meadow like conditions, while Sansom is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/averagefrank.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/ending-austintx-to-nashville-challenge.html\" href=\"http:\/\/averagefrank.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/ending-austintx-to-nashville-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Average Frank: Ending The Austin,TX. to Nashville Challenge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Average Frank<br \/>\nI missed my friends at Texas Pride BBQ. I missed my friends at Live Oak Fire Dept. I missed my friends at South-Paw Tattoo; I&#8217;m glad to be home. If you have following my blog you&#8217;ll know that this was a difficult ride. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/04\/09\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-49-41509\/\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2009\/04\/09\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-49-41509\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 4\/9- 4\/15\/09 | Austin On Two &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\nThe Second Annual Cow Patty Classic Benefit Bike Ride will start and end at Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park, TX and benefits the youth of the Vista Ridge FFA through education and scholarship. All routes &#8211; 25, 50, 75 and 100 mile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mtblawgirl.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/biketexas-q-response-to-senator.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mtblawgirl.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/biketexas-q-response-to-senator.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mtb law girl: BikeTexas Q&amp;A Response to Senator Patrick&#8217;s concerns &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Google Alerts &#8211; Texas Bicycle ride Many associations serving vulnerable road users in Texas, including transit agencies, towing associations and bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations, are poised to conduct awareness and education campaigns to ensure that the this law is effective in reduction of death and &#8230; TTC Section 551.103 specifically requires cyclists to ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge and prohibits cyclists from impeding the normal and reasonable flow of traffic. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/kamalamak.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/sometimes-when-you-get-into-texas-texas.html\" href=\"http:\/\/kamalamak.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/sometimes-when-you-get-into-texas-texas.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Charley and Kamala in Tandem: Sometimes when you get into Texas &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby madhatter<br \/>\nAs far as Texas taste, everything we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve eaten has been great, but then when you ride a bicycle 50 miles a day, it all tastes great. There are lots of Mexican Restaurants standing side by side with BBQ shacks. One, I saw the other day, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road 2 Recovery: Wounded keep giving; Soldiers keep cheering &#8230; by Fort Hood Sentinel Div., and about 11 other members of the post&#8217;s Team Army cycling squad, planned to ride to Waco with the Road 2 Recovery Texas Challenge wounded <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-9th\/\"><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-2179","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-z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}