{"id":29255,"date":"2015-03-24T00:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=29255"},"modified":"2015-03-24T00:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:16:54","slug":"texas-bicycling-news-digest-march-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/texas-bicycling-news-digest-march-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling News Digest March 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Door Zone Warning<\/a><\/h2>\n

Bike Noob<\/h3>\n

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\nLast week, when I went for a ride against my better judgment and wound up aggravating my bronchitis, I was cruising through a new housing development that still has some construction going on. I saw one of the workers shoulder some tools and head toward the street, so I swerved a bit to my right to avoid him. Just then, the door of a pickup truck on my right opened. I had just a second to swerve back and thread the needle between the tool guy and the door.
\nI got through that all right, but lots of cyclists get nailed by the opening door. So I was glad to see some new striping go down on streets in my area, with a feature I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen before. …<\/p>\n

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Texas Hell Week!<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\nWe survived Texas Hell Week! Fredericksburg, TX was a gorgeous place to ride, with fantastic roads and (mostly) fantastic weather! Six friends from the Wabash River Cycle Club were also there, which made it even more fun! The first 3 days went great for both of us, but my patellofemoral syndrome kicked in after 12,000 feet of climbing. Despite icing and mega doses of Advil, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to ride thereafter. Craig, on the other hand, had no problems crop up and was able to ride all 6 days (the last 2 days were rained out). So I ended up with ~300 miles, and Craig had ~575 miles. We highly recommend this ride to …<\/p>\n