{"id":4076,"date":"2010-03-02T22:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2010-03-02T23:55:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:55:24","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mountain Biking for Women – Austin’s SportShop and Pure Austin gym host intro skills<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom www.youtube.com\u00c2\u00a0 02:05
\nKathy Karpinski of Bicycle SportShop’s women’s mountain bike team talks about the team and what it takes to get into mountain biking.<\/p>\n

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Bike MS Bay to Bay Tour long version | Jason’s Bike<\/strong><\/a>
\nby admin
\nThis is my 1st time riding the Ms150 ride from Houston To Austin, Texas and i am proud to be riding for the Dow Team. And my mom and me and my dad all ride for Dow and we have one thing to say Dow is going to do better then Texas Bike …<\/p>\n

El Oso Corredor: Age<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Tony Maldonado
\nRunning Texas Hill Country Trails … Tony Maldonado: I have enjoyed running since childhood, but it was not until about 1989 that I became really active again after being challenged by my brother to complete a 100K bicycle ride. … 4 years earlier I entered him in his first race. He came in last in a field of about 25 kids, but he never stopped trying to run as fast as he could. I will always remember the smile on his face as he crossed the finished line while his name …<\/p>\n

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Team Tom’s Bicycles: Primavera 2010<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Jason
\nUnfortunately, Texas likes to place blue reflectors in the middle of roads to indicate the presence of fire hydrants and they love implementing fire hydrants. These are placed in the worst possible place for a bike race and were the …<\/p>\n

Day 25: Del Rio, Texas, to Uvalde, Texas \u00c2\u00ab Just Another Bike Ride\u00c2\u00a0 …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby brendanpleonard
\nWaitress: I could never ride my bike across the country. Brendan: I know, I’m actually not that into it, either. To San Antonio! Look who’s pedaling in the middle ring! And this is going uphill. Quite a day. That’s more like it. …<\/p>\n

Michael Pincus’s Cycling blog: Lago weekend. cat 2\/3s two 60 mile …<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Michael Pincus
\nLago vista weekend, this was going to be the second year in a row that I completed the Lago course. Lago vista is a unique course because it is a very long climb followed by a very long and fast decent. Last year I hit a new speed record of almost 56 miles per hour. I headed up with Ronnie strange a little before noon on Friday to get to the races, which are about 30 miles west of A-TX…<\/p>\n

Race To The Border 2010<\/strong><\/a>
\nfrom The cycling club at The University of Texas-Pan American
\nThis Saturday March 6, 2010, will be the 1st annual Race To The Border<\/strong><\/a> 25 mile road race and bike tour
\nOver $2000 in cash Prizes
\nPre-register this Friday at Wally\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bicycles from 5-7pm<\/p>\n

Bike the Borderline: Licking Our Wounds<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Ant and Kat
\nBefore clocking off for the night, we would like mention Russ and Laura once more; the couple we met in Van Horn, Texas who are cycling around the USA in the other direction. These guys are embarking on a crazy project and have posted a …<\/p>\n

Technical courses greet racers at Texas Tech – VeloNews<\/strong><\/a>
\nby VeloNews.com
\nIt was out to Lubbock this weekend for many collegiate cyclists in Texas and Oklahoma looking to compete in the first mass start events of the 2010 South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference season. Teams from as far away as Houston …<\/p>\n

Cancer diagnosis leads to cross-country bike ride : North Texas Daily<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Arts-Life-Editor
\nWhen Jonathan Triantafyllou received a phone call last semester and learned that his close friend Philip Bayliss had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was shocked.
\n\"Jonathon
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was 22,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Triantafyllou, a music senior. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It shattered the idea of [invulnerability] you have at 20 or so.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Jonathan Triantafyllou, a music senior, lays out the 4,500 mile cross-country route he and his friend will undertake on their bicycles in June. Their ride will cover 15 states and raise funds for their newly created nonprofit, Bike Towards the Cure. The money will go toward cancer research. Photo by Drew Gaines\/Photographer. …<\/p>\n

Math Has Bike: Us Vs. Gary Fisher<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Math
\nFive seconds into Saturday morning’s ride, about 20 feet away from cycling legend Gary Fisher, I fell flat on my face. A small cheer went up among the sizable crowd of riders, celebrating my hilarious failure. “Somebody had to be the first” they said, almost in unison. I’d taken a symbolic hit for the team, apparently, so I didn’t feel all that embarrassed by it–I just got up and brushed myself off. I’m still getting used to these damned clip-on shoes. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mountain Biking for Women – Austin’s SportShop and Pure Austin gym host intro skills from www.youtube.com\u00c2\u00a0 02:05 Kathy Karpinski of Bicycle SportShop’s women’s mountain bike team talks about the team and what it takes to get into mountain biking. Bike …<\/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":[1429,1557,1535,1556,660,1558,1551,1554,78,1555,1553,1552],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-ant-and-kat","tag-bike-towards-the-cure","tag-brendanpleonard","tag-collegiate-cyclists","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-gary-fisher","tag-kathy-karpinski","tag-michael-pincus","tag-ms150","tag-race-to-the-border","tag-team-toms-bicycles","tag-tony-maldonado"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-13K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}