{"id":5835,"date":"2010-09-17T02:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2010-09-16T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:27:54","slug":"daily-news-roundup-september-16th-texas-bicycling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/daily-news-roundup-september-16th-texas-bicycling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Roundup September 16th &#8211; Texas Bicycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/drmirkin.blogspot.com\" href=\"http:\/\/drmirkin.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/how-exercise-prolongs-life-by-making.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How Exercise Prolongs Life by Making You Stronger<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Fitness &amp; Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin<br \/>\nAs you age, you become progressively weaker. If you exercise regularly, you will not become as weak as other people your age who do not exercise. The same mechanism that makes you stronger will also help you to live substantially longer than people who do not exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard researchers have proven that exercise prevents loss of the connections between nerves and the muscles that they enervate caused by aging (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published online August 29, 2010). The researchers studied genetically engineered mice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\" href=\"http:\/\/austinontwowheels.org\/2010\/09\/16\/austin-bike-culture-calendar-events-916-92210\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9\/16\/10- 9\/22\/10 | Austin On Two &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby elliott<br \/>\nBicycle Advisory Council 6:30 PM One Texas Center, 505 Barton Springs Rd, 8th floor large conference room. The Austin Bicycle Advisory Council is a committee of Austinites representing cyclists&#8217; interests to the City of Austin and meets &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.extraspace.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extraspace.com\/news\/post\/2010\/09\/15\/Self-Storage-Bicyclinge28099s-Best-Kept-Secret.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Self Storage: Bicycling\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Kept Secret<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby John Stevens September 15, 2010 9:04 PM<br \/>\nWhen the weather is warm enough, many people like to walk or bike to work or school every day, either to reduce carbon emissions from a car and reduce air pollution, or simply because they enjoy the exercise. A few adventurous souls travel by bike on vacation, bicycling across the United States, Europe, or Asia. The challenge is where to put your bike when you are not using it. Not all destinations have convenient bike&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasvoice.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasvoice.com\/rolling-pride-1044130.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rolling in for Pride<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Dallas Voice<br \/>\nPEDAL TO THE METTLE | Girdano will arrive back in Dallas just in time to roll in for the Alan?Ross Texas Freedom Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Not every journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step \u00e2\u20ac\u201d sometimes, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pedaling involved.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how Danielle Girdano is finding her way to Dallas Pride: Atop two wheels and a lot of guts.<\/p>\n<p>Girdano set out with her Ride the Arc tour earlier this summer to raise awareness about (and money for) teen suicide,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/nb\/pasadena\/news\/7204031.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Army vet hopes to inspire others to get back in shape<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Houston Chronicle<br \/>\nAt his friends&#8217; encouragement, he also started cycling. The new activity brought him down to his current weight, 170. He has been participating in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\/article\/viewiStockNews\/articleid\/4505806\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>El Paso Times, Texas, Maria Cortes Gonzalez column<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nfrom El Paso Times<br \/>\nBy Maria Cortes Gonzalez, El Paso Times, Texas &#8230; &#8211;1:20 p.m.: &#8220;New Mountain Bike Trails at the Park,&#8221; David Wilson, Borderland Mountain Bike Association &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Exercise Prolongs Life by Making You Stronger from Fitness &amp; Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin As you age, you become progressively weaker. If you exercise regularly, you will not become as weak as other people your age who do <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/daily-news-roundup-september-16th-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":[986,76,2101,523,5253,2100],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-events","tag-bicycle-across-the-us","tag-el-paso-mtb","tag-healthy-living","tag-news","tag-self-storage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-1w7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}