{"id":2583,"date":"2009-07-05T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2009-07-05T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T03:47:12","slug":"daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Blog and News Roundup for July 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingforums.com\/bike-cafe\/468430-video-time-lapse-2008-texas-4000-bike-ride-austin-texas-anchorage-alaska.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingforums.com\/bike-cafe\/468430-video-time-lapse-2008-texas-4000-bike-ride-austin-texas-anchorage-alaska.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video Time Lapse &#8211; 2008 Texas 4000 Bike Ride from Austin, Texas to &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Jose Ole<br \/>\nThis is a video time lapse from my 70 day bike ride with Texas 4000 from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska during the summer of 2008. Over 40 cyclists biked in what was the 5th year of the ride&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/jen-tyler.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/choices.html\" href=\"http:\/\/jen-tyler.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/choices.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jen&#8217;s Ramblings: Choices<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Jen Tyler<br \/>\nRiding with Lisa Ralph, we took our time on this amazing route with no headwind and paced around 19-20mph to the first stop &#8211; the Texas State line! The day continued much like this, full of story-telling, question-asking, song-singing, riddle-telling &#8230; It was great to ride because I wanted to ride, to enjoy the company of a friend along the way on an open (smooth) road, and to remember how much I really do like my bike, and that is party of why I signed up to do this. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.the33tv.com\/news\/kdaf-freedom-ride,0,7300659.story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the33tv.com\/news\/kdaf-freedom-ride,0,7300659.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A North Texas bike company took time out today to honor the &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby 33 KDAF-TV &#8211; Dallas,TX,USA<br \/>\nA North Texas bike company took time out today to honor the children of soldiers who serve overseas. How does a parent make up for lost lost time with a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/drc\/localnews\/stories\/DRC_Bicycles_0704.73af40c.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/drc\/localnews\/stories\/DRC_Bicycles_0704.73af40c.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike lanes may cut through downtown<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Denton Record Chronicle &#8211; Denton,TX,USA<br \/>\nThe plan is designed to offer safe bike paths from the University of North Texas to the planned bus and commuter rail station east of the downtown Square, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/competitor.com\/sports\/news\/jetblue-waives-bike-fees-for-the-month-of-july\/\" href=\"http:\/\/competitor.com\/sports\/news\/jetblue-waives-bike-fees-for-the-month-of-july\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JetBlue Waives Bike Fees For The Month Of July &#8211; Competitor.com<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Liz Hichens, Online Editor<br \/>\nIn addition to its home town of New York City, JetBlue jets to some of the biggest cycling cities in the country, including: Austin, Texas; Chicago, Ill.; Denver, Colo.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va.; Rochester, N.Y.; San Diego, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.slowtwitch.com\/Interview\/Amy_Marsh_has_arrived_j897.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slowtwitch.com\/Interview\/Amy_Marsh_has_arrived_j897.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Amy Marsh has arrived<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Slowtwitch &#8211; Valyermo,CA,USA<br \/>\nAfter a couple of fourth place finishes at 70.3 Florida and Kansas this year, Amy Marsh finally climbed to the very top of the podium at the Buffalo Springs 70.3 event in Lubbock, TX last weekend. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.mantecabulletin.com\/news\/article\/5084\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mantecabulletin.com\/news\/article\/5084\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College cyclists pedal cancer awareness<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Manteca Bulletin &#8211; Manteca,CA,USA<br \/>\nAnd for the 21 cyclists from the Texas capital of Austin, the uneven rows meant that they&#8217;d finally have a chance to take a rest \u00e2\u20ac\u201c stopping in Manteca for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearbunny.org\/2009\/07\/02\/2009-bicycle-tour-of-colorado\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.nuclearbunny.org\/2009\/07\/02\/2009-bicycle-tour-of-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Nuclear Bunny Blog \u00c2\u00bb 2009 Bicycle Tour of Colorado<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby chadwick<br \/>\nI normally ride with very little equipment, nor do I need much here in Texas. But a touring ride in the mountains is a different matter altogether, and I was pondering taking my touring bike so I could make use of its rear rack for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>The following news is not Texas related but is from my home town newspaper so I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com\/article\/20090705\/SPORTS\/907050328\/1006\/Mohican-trailblazer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com\/article\/20090705\/SPORTS\/907050328\/1006\/Mohican-trailblazer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mohican trailblazer<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Zanesville Times Recorder &#8211; Zanesville,OH,USA<br \/>\n&#8220;Cycling is my first love,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Even though I&#8217;ve had some success in running, it&#8217;s not my bread and butter.&#8221; To build endurance, she and Jacolenne &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.grannygears.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/im-back-in-texas-its-hot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grannygears.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/im-back-in-texas-its-hot\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GRANNYGEARS.COM \u00c2\u00bb I&#8217;m back in Texas! It&#8217;s hot!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Deanna<br \/>\nWith my super low mountain bike granny gears, I didn&#8217;t have any problem pulling it, although I&#8217;m sure I could have walked it up a long hill faster than I could ride up. I know, I know, my knobby tires don&#8217;t help, but its Old Nelly and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Time Lapse &#8211; 2008 Texas 4000 Bike Ride from Austin, Texas to &#8230; by Jose Ole This is a video time lapse from my 70 day bike ride with Texas 4000 from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska during the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/05\/daily-blog-and-news-roundup-for-july-5th\/\"><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-2583","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-FF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}