{"id":3125,"date":"2009-10-25T23:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2009-10-25T23:12:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:12:04","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for October 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><strong>I have never been a big sport drink consumer. At rides they only seem to have the bad tasting lemon\/lime stuff. I think the only reason it is at the rides is because their inventory needs to be lowered because nobody will buy it.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/drmirkin.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/potassium-deficiency-myth.html\" href=\"http:\/\/drmirkin.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/potassium-deficiency-myth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Potassium Deficiency Myth<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Fitness &amp; Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin by Dr. Gabe Mirkin<br \/>\nSports drink promoters have convinced many athletes that they need special drinks to replace potassium during exercise. A recent study of female soccer players confirms that this is a myth (International Journal of Sports Medicine, June 2009). When body levels of potassium are low, the kidneys and sweat glands conserve potassium so effectively that potassium deficiency rarely occurs. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been a big sport drink consumer. At rides they only seem to have the bad tasting lemon\/lime stuff. I think the only reason it is at the rides is because their inventory needs to be lowered because <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-october-25th\/\"><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":[660,1076],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-sports-drinks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}