{"id":5419,"date":"2010-08-02T23:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2010-08-02T23:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:14:29","slug":"daily-news-roundup-august-2nd-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/daily-news-roundup-august-2nd-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup August 2nd – Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local cyclist co-chairs Tour de Cure<\/strong><\/a>
\nScott Ahrendt gears up for race that raises money for diabetes research, treatment
\nBy JULIE BONNIN CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT
\nJuly 30, 2010, 6:31AM
\nThe world looks better from a bicycle. And for a cyclist, the world at more than 14,000 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains creates an even more rarefied experience.<\/p>\n

Still, Kingwood’s Scott Ahrendt, who made a 120-mile Colorado trek in July while there on a business trip, is every bit as excited about a September cycling event right here in Houston. …<\/p>\n

‘Desert to Dome’ riders reaches Texas<\/strong><\/a>
\nby South Bend Tribune
\nThe couple started their month-long cross-country bicycle ride July 24. The trek is designed to publicize the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, …<\/p>\n

The 2010 Goatneck Ride Report from Kue<\/strong><\/a>
\nby teamtexasrides
\nA Lesson in Preparation
\nI will forever remember the Goatneck this year because it was, simply put, one of the worst rides of my life. Lack of preparation in several areas culminated in this near disaster. For those of you who ride or wish to ride, take note of my mistakes. For those of you who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ride and probably never will, please laugh at my misfortune.<\/p>\n

Train! What else is there to say. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just get up off the couch…<\/p>\n

Goatneck 2010 Bicycle Race\u00c2\u00a0 by Jim Manganella<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhotos are from the 41 mile & 69 mile, Goatneck 2010 bicycle races at Cleburne, Texas. Taken one mile before the rest stop where the two routes separated. The images are in the race order at that point taken between 8:15 and 9:30 AM.<\/p>\n

Unlike a marathon, this happens much faster and the badge numbers if they exist are all but impossible to see or record. If you know where you were in the pack and where you were in the start order, that may help to locate your photo. There’s 31 pages of photos below. If you were last, that’s easy go to the end! …<\/p>\n

New bike, ped projects approved<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Austin News
\nAUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Transportation Committee voted last week to fund four new bicycle and pedestrian projects for Central Texas. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local cyclist co-chairs Tour de Cure Scott Ahrendt gears up for race that raises money for diabetes research, treatment By JULIE BONNIN CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT July 30, 2010, 6:31AM The world looks better from a bicycle. And for a cyclist, the …<\/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":[1972,5253,1973,223,1772],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-desert-to-dome","tag-news","tag-texas-transportation-committee","tag-tour-de-cure","tag-tour-de-goatneck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}