{"id":4039,"date":"2010-02-25T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2010-02-25T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T05:29:28","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-february-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for February 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting Ready for the Weekend! \u00c2\u00ab Connie’s Bike MS: Sam’s Club 2010 …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby connie98
\nBesides that event on Saturday, AND if the weather cooperates, I’ll be riding with Team ICS-IAS at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. Their captain has graciously offered up the opportunity to ride laps with them. …<\/p>\n

Livin In The Bike Lane: Roadside Assistance<\/strong><\/a>
\nby LivinInTheBikeLane
\nI have been out in Texas all week for work, and am in a small town that doesn’t have a single bicycle facility to be found. It is pretty amazing when you go from a place that you would feel comfortable biking anywhere, to a place that …<\/p>\n

Ultra-Endurance racing: training to go the distance<\/strong><\/a>
\nIf you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read my bio, you know that my favorite cycling discipline is ultra-endurance mountain biking, which has gained a lot of popularity in recent years because of its fabled races and seemingly super-human athletes.\u00c2\u00a0 USA Cycling defines Ultra Endurance as an event lasting over 4 hours, which includes the Marathon format (which is limited to 47-62 miles), ultra marathon and timed events such as 6, 12, and 24 hour racing.\u00c2\u00a0 This series of articles…<\/p>\n

Images by Heather: Bike Race….<\/strong><\/a>
\nby About the Family
\nOnly in Texas…. Go for a Sunday drive by the lake and come up with a bicycle race….. Always an adventure when we go for a drive… Ready to go? Crazy, Crazy, Hill Country… I LOVE it!!!!<\/p>\n

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Team San Angelo: Race Across America?<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Bill Cullins
\nMost of us consider 30-40 miles to be a nice long bike ride. Not so for cyclist Dex Tooke of Del Rio \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s planning to ride across America, west coast to east coast, solo and with very little rest time. Now, Dex isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t your average cyclist. For starters, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 60 and thus considered to be a senior citizen by cycling standards. But more importantly, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an accomplished ultra endurance athlete with an impressive resume of long distance events…<\/p>\n

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Mad Duck Adventure Sports – The Bicycle Boutique | Grapevine TX<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Joe Thomas
\nSo take a few minutes to stop in and check out a cool bicycle shop with some great people working there. You may just find yourself out for a ride with these guys this weekend. Located at: 721 East Northwest Highway Grapevine, TX 76051- …<\/p>\n

Day 20: Van Horn, Texas, to Marfa, Texas \u00c2\u00ab Just Another Bike Ride\u00c2\u00a0 …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby brendanpleonard
\nLots of people have told me that what I would remember about this trip is the people we meet. Well, we had a blast today, a few miles out of Van Horn, starting with, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are those bikes behind us?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a few minutes later meeting Bruce and Dana, then playing leapfrog with them and chatting with them at our rest stops all the way to Marfa, Texas this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Bruce and Dana are retired teachers from Tacoma, and are taking on…<\/p>\n

Blog hiatus of sorts | Road Rash<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Jason Whaley
\nRoad Rash. A guy. On a bike. Exploring Central Texas. And beyond. … Being off the bike stinks for several reasons, including the fact that I cannot attend or be a part of the wonderful cycling events and rides around town. I do not want to cheat readers by just re-posting stuff from other sources, so until I am fully capable of doing what I love to do, this blog might not be as complete as in the past. I will keep everyone up to date on my progress and return to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting Ready for the Weekend! \u00c2\u00ab Connie’s Bike MS: Sam’s Club 2010 … by connie98 Besides that event on Saturday, AND if the weather cooperates, I’ll be riding with Team ICS-IAS at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. Their captain has …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[242,1535,1530,1533,660,1534,1531,1252,1532],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-race","tag-brendanpleonard","tag-connies-bike","tag-dex-tooke","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-mad-duck-adventure-sports","tag-road-assistance","tag-road-rash","tag-ultra-endurance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-139","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","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=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}