{"id":7730,"date":"2011-03-20T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2011-03-20T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T04:16:10","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-20th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-20th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.geneinman.com\/magnolia_miles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geneinman.com\/magnolia_miles\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Magnolia Miles Bike Ride<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n2011 &#8211; Magnolia Texas<br \/>\nBy Gene Inman<br \/>\nHere are some select photos of the 2011 Magnolia Miles Bike Ride in Magnolia, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day, although a 4:30am wake-up was a bit too early for me. At the start, it looked to be about 800 to 1000&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/blog\/article\/the-social-network-and-the-cycling-club-29651?CPN=RSS&amp;SOURCE=BRGEN\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>The social network and the cycling club<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom BikeRadar.com Blogs &#8211; Pro Cycling by Jeff Jones in Bath, UK<br \/>\nA big part of cycling&#8217;s attraction is the social element. There aren&#8217;t too many sports where it&#8217;s possible to chat to your mates during the activity, whether it&#8217;s recreational or serious. Even in the Tour de France, one of the toughest sporting events in the world, the racers talk to each other in the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling is an easy way to meet other people and as we know, the social network is fundamental to human life. This is why we have cycling clubs, which bring people together on and off the bike. Clubs serve to teach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikebrookshire.com\" href=\"http:\/\/bikebrookshire.com\/2011\/03\/20\/bluebonnet-express-bike-ride-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Bluebonnet Express Bike Ride 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Bike Brookshire<br \/>\nBluebonnet Express 2011 Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes are just starting to bloom in time for the annual Bluebonnet Express Metric Century bike ride.\u00c2\u00a0 The ride starts at Waller ISD Stadium and winds it way thru the rolling plains and backcountry roads of Waller County. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/delrionewsherald.com\" href=\"http:\/\/delrionewsherald.com\/sports\/article_9c80eba8-52a6-11e0-b67f-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Tooke competes in 375-mile bicycle race<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom delrionewsherald.com<br \/>\nThe THC is a 375-mile non-stop bicycle race. The challenging route starts in Helotes, Texas, then travels to Bandera, Medina, Leakey, Camp Wood, Rocksprings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnolia Miles Bike Ride 2011 &#8211; Magnolia Texas By Gene Inman Here are some select photos of the 2011 Magnolia Miles Bike Ride in Magnolia, Texas. It was a beautiful day, although a 4:30am wake-up was a bit too early <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-20th-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":[1420,660,2586,2587,2588],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bluebonnet-express-bike-ride","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-magnolia-miles-bike-ride","tag-social-network","tag-thc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-20G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","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=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}