{"id":3814,"date":"2010-02-07T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T04:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T04:24:45","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for February 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/therockwallnews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/therockwallnews.com\/2010\/0207\/featured\/grinnan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Precinct 2 County Commissioner Lorie Grinnan running for re-election<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby The Rockwall News<br \/>\nAs the Bicycle and Pedestrian NCTCOG Representative, she said she is coordinating efforts to improve the County&#8217;s trail system and open space planning. Also serving as President of the Emergency Services Corporation, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/supersquadra.net\" href=\"http:\/\/supersquadra.net\/?p=1660\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Super Squadra: On Top at Belterra<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy Sarah<br \/>\nThe annual spring circuit races at Belterra have treated our team quite nicely over the years. Phil landed our first ever team P-1-2 win at Belterra in 2008 and a we finished out 2nd place in 2009. We were able to leap back up to the top of the podium this year on yet another back-breaking course with many feet of climbing, a very strong field, and an extended warm up\/ cool down to get the day to Walburg workload levels. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/07\/trail-advances-toward-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hoogstra: Texas Forts Trail advances toward the future<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Abilene Reporter-News<br \/>\nPartnering has long been recognized as an effective tool for a group of individuals to reach similar goals; from its beginning the Texas Forts Trail has sought to work with partners throughout the region and the state. This past year the Texas Forts Trail established a relationship with the Hotter\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcN Hell Hundred and Wichita Falls Streams and Valleys organizations and co-sponsored a three day bicycle ride \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Texas Forts Tour.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Through this collaboration, numerous cycling enthusiasts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/biketheborderline.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/biketheborderline.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/lazing-in-leakey.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bike the Borderline: Lazing in Leakey<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAnt and Kat<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stop the Press\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A rest day without doing laundry? We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not complaining. Yesterday was sooo gut-bustingly difficult we just had to chill all day today. How those Tour de France guys do what they do is just unbelievable. And before any of you purists start mumbling under your breath in mockery of our comparison to the Gods of Cycling, you may want to know that yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cycling route was often used by the one and only Louis no sorry Neil no we mean Lance Armstrong for training and is still commonly used by USA Pro cyclists\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so there. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/silken-didyouknow.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/silken-didyouknow.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/did-you-know-about-tour-de-hood.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Did You Know?: Did You Know About Tour de Hood?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby silken<br \/>\nWhile watching Texas Country Reporter last night, we came across a great program taking place not too very far from us. It is called Tour de Hood . Dr. Veon McReynolds has in effect started an inner city cycling club. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/lonestartravelers.com\/wordpress\/february-2010-in-north-texas\" href=\"http:\/\/lonestartravelers.com\/wordpress\/february-2010-in-north-texas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>February 2010 in North Texas \u00c2\u00ab Lone Star Travelers Blog<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby joanie7<br \/>\nThe popular off road bicycling trails have been closed and deserted for months and not expected to open back up any time soon. The lake is lifeless and uninviting with not a boater in sight. Every so often an intrepid visitor will head &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precinct 2 County Commissioner Lorie Grinnan running for re-election by The Rockwall News As the Bicycle and Pedestrian NCTCOG Representative, she said she is coordinating efforts to improve the County&#8217;s trail system and open space planning. Also serving as President <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-7th\/\"><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":[1429,1428,1427,660,1431,938,1430],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-ant-and-kat","tag-belterra","tag-bicycle-and-pedestrian-nctcog","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-lone-star-travelers-blog","tag-texas-forts-trail","tag-tour-de-hood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-Zw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}