{"id":5376,"date":"2010-07-27T23:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2010-07-27T23:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:16:39","slug":"daily-news-roundup-july-27th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/daily-news-roundup-july-27th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup July 27th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/jimsbikeblog.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/jimsbikeblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/27\/the-lazy-days-of-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The lazy days of summer \u00c2\u00ab Jim&#8217;s Bike Blog<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby jimsbikeblog<br \/>\nAt this time last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Texas furnace heat, be damned \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I was preparing full bore for a transcontinental bicycle ride in the autumn from San Diego to St. Augustine, Fla., and was closing in on 3000 training miles. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/mpinky96.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tour de L&#8217;Abitibi<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Michael Pincus&#8217;s Cycling blog<br \/>\nThe first time I heard of this race was 2 years ago back when I was 14 at the southwest regional camp in Lubbock Texas. Tour De L&#8217;Abitibi is the largest and only UCI jr stage race in the western hemisphere. The race takes place in\u00c2\u00a0 the small town of Val d&#8217;Or in Quebec Canada. In order to get to race you must be on a team that gets invited and have a racing age of 17-18. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.youngfreetexas.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youngfreetexas.com\/blog\/adventures-in-bicycling-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Young &amp; Free Texas &#8211; Blog &#8211; Adventures in Bicycling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Josh Garrett<br \/>\nAnyway, today I&#8217;m reporting that my bicycle purchase feels like a resounding success! I spent a lot more on it than I probably should have, but I&#8217;m also getting really good exercise and enjoying my cycling experience. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lazy days of summer \u00c2\u00ab Jim&#8217;s Bike Blog by jimsbikeblog At this time last year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Texas furnace heat, be damned \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I was preparing full bore for a transcontinental bicycle ride in the autumn from San Diego to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/daily-news-roundup-july-27th-texas-bicycling-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":[1951,5253,1952,1953],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-lazy-days","tag-news","tag-tour-de-labitibi","tag-young-rider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","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=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}