{"id":4500,"date":"2010-04-18T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2010-04-18T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:48:59","slug":"whats-turning-the-spokes-on-the-net-april-18th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/whats-turning-the-spokes-on-the-net-april-18th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Turning the Spokes on the Net April 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/5HM8OB18uak\/6963891.html\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/5HM8OB18uak\/6963891.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Teen makes grade in class, cycling races abroad<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBy ERIC BERGER<br \/>\nHOUSTON CHRONICLE<br \/>\nLawson Craddock of Houston, 18, finished third in the junior Paris-Roubaix, the race in northern France famous for its cobblestone sections.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday Lawson Craddock was flying across the cobblestone roads of northern France in the juniors edition of the famed one-day cycling race Paris-Roubaix, nicknamed the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hell of the North\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for its sections of rugged cobbles. The 18-year-old from Houston finished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/uXf6dac4kuM\/6963672.html\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chron.com\/~r\/houstonchronicle\/metro\/~3\/uXf6dac4kuM\/6963672.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MS 150 rider not letting cancer keep her off bike<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPedaling to Austin is her way of showing she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never give up<br \/>\nBy MOISES MENDOZA<br \/>\nHOUSTON CHRONICLE<br \/>\nThe MS 150 is an annual fundraising ride from Houston to Austin, held to raise money to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. About 13,000 cyclists are participating in the ride, which lasts through today. For more information visit www.ms150.org.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Benavidez remembers the painful moment in March 2008 when she fell while training on her bike.<\/p>\n<p>Her groin was hurt so she went to the hospital, figuring she&#8217;d get patched up and be out on the road again soon. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/04\/18\/2122935\/stockard-high-school-football.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stockard: High school football is worth the sacrifices<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Fort Worth Star Telegram<br \/>\nThe injury rate for bicycle riding is more than 50 times that of football. Should we ban or curtail bicycle riding? Tomasic wrote that smaller players go up &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mineralwellsindex.com\" href=\"http:\/\/mineralwellsindex.com\/homepage\/x993503271\/Riders-on-the-storm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Riders on the storm<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Mineral Wells Index<br \/>\nThe stage race seems to have firmly sealed Palo Pinto County on the bicycling map as having the third Texas bike race to offer rolling enclosures, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mineralwellsindex.com\/archive\/x563623584\/g0a000000000000000061cce9d0854b9e934d34af1b3206827cc5c49e10.jpg?resize=160%2C174\" alt=\"Mineral Wells Stage Race\" width=\"160\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen makes grade in class, cycling races abroad By ERIC BERGER HOUSTON CHRONICLE Lawson Craddock of Houston, 18, finished third in the junior Paris-Roubaix, the race in northern France famous for its cobblestone sections. Last Sunday Lawson Craddock was flying <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/whats-turning-the-spokes-on-the-net-april-18th-2\/\"><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":[547,741,1691,1692,1450],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-safety","tag-bp-ms150","tag-lawson-craddock","tag-liz-benavidez","tag-mineral-wells-stage-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1aA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}