{"id":64698,"date":"2024-02-26T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=64698"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:59:00","slug":"exploring-harlingens-trails-some-new-streets-with-dog-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/26\/exploring-harlingens-trails-some-new-streets-with-dog-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Harlingen&#8217;s Trails, Some New Streets With Dog Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploring Harlingen&#039;s Trails, Some New Streets With Dog Sprint 2\/26\/2024\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlZQ33rcx-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s bike in Harlingen was a mixture of bike trails and roads. The Bike trails and some of the roads were new to me. It was great exploring the trails after entering from the US77\/US83 northbound frontage road at Rangerville Road by the Sames Ford Dealer. I saw the entrance several times driving by and wondered what the trail was like. There wasn&#8217;t a lot of information on the internet and the City of Harlingen&#8217;s maps were out of date. I started the ride at 11:21 AM from where I&#8217;m staying. I debated about changing the tires on my Canyon Endurace CF 7 bike to the 700x35mm but decided to stick with the carbon rims and 700x28mm tires. This worked out well since the trails were asphalt though not always smooth. I rode east to a park where that trail ended. I didn&#8217;t expect the trail to in the river bottom and well below the grade of the surroundings. There a few climbs but nothing severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After leaving the trail on the west side of the freeway after coming to a closed section I encountered a large gold dog who chased me for about half a block. Fortunately he barked a lot but didn&#8217;t get close enough to bite. I used the Bolt computer map to find Rangerville Road. Earlier I looked on Google maps and saw Dixieland Road would take me north to Spur 54 where I could ride on part of the route from Saturday to Loop 499. There a couple of construction areas but traffic was light. The wind was strong as I rode on Loop 499. I took a new direction at N 25th Street to the west. There wasn&#8217;t much slowing the wind and it was hard pedaling. At one of the traffic lights I saw a sign for a trail but I didn&#8217;t know where it went so I stayed on N 25th. I took this street to avoid the sections of Loop 499 without a shoulder.  N 25th had a shoulder until US77 Sunset Strip. I thought I was close to where I needed to turn west but it was farther. The traffic on US77 Sunset Strip was not too heavy and drivers gave me room. I don&#8217;t think this route was much better than Loop 499. I finished at 1:21 PM riding 23.33 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather: Start 74 degrees, humidity 82%, dew point 68, wind S 23 mph; Finish 81 degrees, humidity 65%, dew point 68, wind S 22 mph gusts 30 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><div class=\"fatmap-embed-placeholder\" data-type=\"lived-adventure\" data-id=\"110735056\" data-screen=\"elevation-profile\"><\/div>\n<script defer src=\"https:\/\/embeds.fatmap.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<\/center><center><div class=\"strava-embed-placeholder\" data-embed-type=\"activity\" data-embed-id=\"10842554537\" data-style=\"standard\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/strava-embeds.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s bike in Harlingen was a mixture of bike trails and roads. The Bike trails and some of the roads were new to me. It was great exploring the trails after entering from the US77\/US83 northbound frontage road at Rangerville <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/26\/exploring-harlingens-trails-some-new-streets-with-dog-sprint\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2560,212,5297,4719,503,1424],"class_list":["post-64698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-bicycle","tag-bicycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-harlingen-texas","tag-road"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-gPw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698","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=64698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64699,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64698\/revisions\/64699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}