{"id":5467,"date":"2010-08-06T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2010-08-06T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T03:00:34","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for August 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/06\/your-legs-need-more-fuel-in-high-country\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Your legs need more fuel in high country<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby San Angelo Standard Times<br \/>\nThe problem with running at altitude on steep gradients is that your legs don&#8217;t have multiple climbing gears like a bicycle. The trail run, while enjoyable, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/raincrowsong.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/raincrowsong.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/seeing-cycles.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Song of The RainCrow: Seeing Cycles<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby William RainCrow<br \/>\nNow for the bicycle part. I am hugely in favor of bicycle riding. Other than walking, there is no other form of transportation that I know of that is as energy efficient, healthy, or ecologically friendly as bicycling. &#8230; I still don&#8217;t live on city streets, and I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;d have the courage it takes to ride there, even with the wonderful new dedicated bike lanes. I live out in the country near McDade, Tx now, my bike is an old, but solid, Murray 18 speed mountain &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_3qStmux6Utg\/TFyYgoVA61I\/AAAAAAAAACY\/y2ZLwZBjZHI\/s200\/3152769_d1c4cea12f.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"William Raincrow\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bicyclesportshop.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bicyclesportshop.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/05\/its-time-to-ride-to-school\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>It&#8217;s Time To Ride\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6to School \u00c2\u00ab It&#8217;s Time To Ride!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby cartertx<br \/>\nEarlier this year Patsy Sommer Elementary in Round Rock became the first school in Central Texas to join a unique bike to school program called Boltage. Boltage provides students with a little extra incentive to ride to school &#8230; Bicycle safety and awareness classes are taught in PE while students learn about the physical benefits cycling offers them in health class. Robert and 2 other families co-op trips to school with their kids so that one parent rides with 5 kids. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bicyclesportshop.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/squadra-clinic-ride-freiker-462.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225&#038;fit=300%2C225&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Bike to school safely\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/recreation\/mountain-biking-in-breckenridge-how-does-it-compare-845783.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mountain biking in Breckenridge: How does it compare to Austin?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin 360<br \/>\nBy Pam LeBlanc<br \/>\nWe have a world-class mountain biking scene here in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The stair-stepped ledges of Emma Long Metropolitan Park, the rock- and root-studded single track through the Barton Creek greenbelt, and the up-and-down, whoop-de-do terrain of Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park chum up cyclists riding knobby-tired steeds like wriggly worms draw in bass.<\/p>\n<p>So how does mountain biking in Austin, where the elevation is 621 feet at Camp Mabry, compare to mountain biking in the real mountains \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Rocky Mountains of Colorado? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.austin360.com\/multimedia\/dynamic\/00507\/PL-Breckenridge-Bik_507638k.jpg?resize=169%2C127\" alt=\"Texas\" width=\"169\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your legs need more fuel in high country by San Angelo Standard Times The problem with running at altitude on steep gradients is that your legs don&#8217;t have multiple climbing gears like a bicycle. The trail run, while enjoyable, &#8230; <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-august-6th\/\"><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":[1987,660,1988,34,1986],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-boltage","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-emma-long-metropolitan-park","tag-west-texas","tag-william-raincrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","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=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}