{"id":2243,"date":"2009-04-19T21:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2009-04-19T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T03:29:25","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for April 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/adam-baldwin\/ride-2-recovery-an-amazin_b_188763.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/adam-baldwin\/ride-2-recovery-an-amazin_b_188763.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adam Baldwin: Ride 2 Recovery: An Amazing Journey<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Adam Baldwin<br \/>\nThat beautiful moment was but one of countless expressions of dignity and courage that I witnessed during my participation in this year&#8217;s Ride 2 Recovery &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas Challenge&#8221; &#8212; a 350 mile bicycle ride from Brooke Army &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/thousansds_cycle_in_ms_150_bike_tour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/thousansds_cycle_in_ms_150_bike_tour\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Thousands cycle in MS 150 bike tour<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby KXAN-TV &#8211; Austin,TX,USA<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll ride until I&#8217;m too old to do it.&#8221; The BP MS 150 is the largest non-profit fundraising event in Texas and the largest MS 150 in North America. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/sunday-bike-ride-to-fort-worth.html\" href=\"http:\/\/durangotexas.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/sunday-bike-ride-to-fort-worth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Durango Texas: Sunday Bike Ride to the Fort Worth Stockyards with Beer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Durango<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m at the end of my bike ride, back in Gateway Park, looking at the #1 (according to Dog Fancy magazine) dog park in the U.S. We are so proud. But no city-wide celebration was held. There were a lot of people with a lot of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/18\/the-right-path-williamson-pedals-way-through\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/18\/the-right-path-williamson-pedals-way-through\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Williamson pedals way through life<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Times Record News &#8211; Wichita Falls,TX,USA<br \/>\nHe began to run, but discovered bicycling was better for his legs. &#8230; A daughter teaches in Killeen, Texas. They have three sons: one set to go to boot &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/cycling-12.html\" href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/cycling-12.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Keith Burgess-Jackson: Cycling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Keith Burgess-Jackson<br \/>\nCycling. There was supposed to be a bike rally in Granbury, Texas, yesterday, but it was canceled by the organizer a couple of weeks ago for lack of sponsorship. Undaunted, my friends (Phil, Randy, Bryce) and I decided to ride the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/gtdirtcoalitiontx.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/hill-country-challenge-omnium-win.html\" href=\"http:\/\/gtdirtcoalitiontx.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/hill-country-challenge-omnium-win.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GT Dirt Coalition Texas: Hill Country Challenge Omnium Win<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Jim Thomas<br \/>\nComfort, Tx. Flat Rock Ranch. April 18 and 19, 2008. After several days of deluge, much needed rain for the countries #1 dehydrated state, the South Texas Off Road Mountain Bikers hosted the Hill Country Challenge Omnium. The attendance was a bit lower than anticipated due &#8230; The winner from the last race, Jason Grimes (OA) had family stuff, so wasn&#8217;t around; but Matt Schram (Austin Bikes) and Daryl Hilsenbeck (NRC) were. They finished 2 &amp; 3 behind Jason up at Reimers. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Baldwin: Ride 2 Recovery: An Amazing Journey by Adam Baldwin That beautiful moment was but one of countless expressions of dignity and courage that I witnessed during my participation in this year&#8217;s Ride 2 Recovery &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-19th\/\"><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-2243","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-Ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}