{"id":29056,"date":"2015-02-26T23:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=29056"},"modified":"2015-02-26T23:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T05:58:02","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-february-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/26\/texas-bicycling-news-february-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News February 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITORIAL: Future growth for McAllen<\/a><\/h2>\n

www.themonitor.com<\/h3>\n

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\nDuring Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s State of the City speech, McAllen Mayor Jim Darling made it clear to all 900 people in the room his unequivocal support for children and improving the health and wealth of McAllen when he sprinted into the grand hall of the McAllen Convention Center dressed in a gray sweatsuit, tennis shoes and red headband accompanied by dozens of school children.
\nHis surprise entrance came after the mayor was featured in a video montage, set to the theme tune of the movie Rocky, which showed him running in that same sweatsuit throughout the city and stopping to describe various attractions, planned development, infrastructure improvements and growth in different sectors of McAllen.
\nThis energetic followup was a creative comeback to last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s State of the City speech when Darling rode in on a bicycle wearing tight, Spandex bike shorts, after …<\/p>\n

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This is a long read but ends up in Beaumont, Texas.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Pedal Turning, Learning, and Calorie Burning, Days 149-163, 571 miles<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Dylan Peterson\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0jdwheelsofchange.com<\/h3>\n

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\nA key factor in why we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re taking this trip is that we aspire to learn more about ourselves. Another reason is to become well-rounded individuals. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re finding that everywhere we go, we meet people who affect us in some way. It seems that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re constantly learning new healthy practices and mindful ways to approach life and its peculiar situations. Sometimes we meet people extremely different from us but in pursuit of the same goals. For instance, where we last left off, in Mary Esther, FL, we were staying with our buddy, George, and his roommates Conor and Wimpee.
\nThe three of them are in the Air Force, and Wimpee and Conor told us they were to be deployed within the year. All three of them exhibited outstanding discipline and work ethics. It was great to reminisce on some priceless memories with our buddy George from our times at Springfield College. More so, we were inspired by …<\/p>\n

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76-Year-Old Man Bikes 300 Miles To Raise Money For Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\nPlanned Parenthood of South Texas is turning 76 this year, and so is Texas resident Gene Novogrodsky.
\nTo mark the two occasions, Novogrodsky embarked on a 300-mile bike ride at 6 a.m. Thursday from his hometown of Brownsville to San Antonio. The ride, which he is calling the “Spirit of ’76,” has already raised more than $8,600 in donations for the Planned Parenthood clinics in Brownsville and Harlingen, two underserved areas in the Rio Grande Valley. He plans to arrive in San Antonio next Tuesday.
\nNovogrodsky, a longtime civil rights advocate and instructor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, said he is riding to raise awareness of …<\/p>\n

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Pedestrian bridge may finally rise over Mockingbird Lane<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Melissa Repko\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0thescoopblog.dallasnews.com<\/h3>\n

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\nA long-awaited pedestrian bridge over Mockingbird Lane may finally rise in Northeast Dallas, more than a year after its groundbreaking ceremony.
\nThe Mockingbird Pedestrian Bridge will connect the popular Katy Trail to Mockingbird Station, a shopping complex with restaurants, apartments, a movie theater and a DART station.The suspension bridge will allow pedestrians and cyclists to easily cross the congested street and hop on a train.
\nCity officials say construction could be underway by the fall. The city is finalizing real estate agreements for easements on either side of the bridge, said Chiamin Korngiebel, a senior program manager for Dallas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 public works department. She said …<\/p>\n

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Midwestern State University Cycling Team<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\nThe current & future MSU ladies don’t let the cold weather stop them. They’re using our awesome Cycling Performance Lab to get their last pre-race workout in before our season starts.<\/p>\n