{"id":4405,"date":"2010-04-07T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2010-04-07T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T04:14:31","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for April 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dentonrc.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/fea\/travel\/texasneighbors\/stories\/DN-regnotes_0328tra.ART.State.Edition1.4cd445c.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get close to Texas wildflowers with a bike tour | Denton Record &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFrom now through at least the end of April, wildflowers are expected to be abundant statewide, especially in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The area around the town of Fayetteville, between Austin and Houston, should have plenty of scenic roadsides. And it&#8217;s near the epicenter of popular cycling routes.<\/p>\n<p>On a bicycle, you won&#8217;t have much trouble pulling over to take the umpteenth charming wildflower photograph or to picnic amid blooms. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ehecatlcycling.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/ehecatlcycling.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/07\/the-chain-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Chain Guy \u00c2\u00ab Ehecatl Cycling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Ehecatl Cycling<br \/>\nA little over a week ago was the Mercedes Mid-Valley\u00c2\u00a0 Challenge Walk, Run, and Bike which for all intents and purposes was supposed to serve as the first race of my 2010 season.\u00c2\u00a0 Excited as I was for the race, the events that unfolded that day certainly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live up to my expectations.\u00c2\u00a0 What began as a day filled with great potential ended instead with a rather hefty repair bill.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s begin with a bit of background on my own cycling ventures to better paint the picture of what unfolded at the Mercedes Mid-Valley Challenge. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.pcs-lodging.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcs-lodging.com\/news\/More-than-100-wounded-soldiers-come-to-Fort-Hood-for-Ride-2-Recovery.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More than 100 wounded soldiers come to Fort Hood for Ride 2 Recovery<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby PCS-Loding<br \/>\nThe 6-day, 350-mile bicycle ride kicked off earlier today at the Center for &#8230; in time to watch the Texas Rangers take on the Seattle Mariners on April 11. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pcs-lodging.com\/assets\/news\/images\/regular\/Cycling_1736_19706706_0_0_7049201_300.jpg?resize=300%2C203\" alt=\"Road 2 Recovery\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get close to Texas wildflowers with a bike tour | Denton Record &#8230; From now through at least the end of April, wildflowers are expected to be abundant statewide, especially in Central Texas. The area around the town of Fayetteville, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-april-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":[660,1675,1579,1674],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-mercedes-mid-valley-challenge","tag-ride-2-recovery","tag-texas-wildflowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-193","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}