{"id":7776,"date":"2011-03-24T23:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2011-03-24T23:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:19:18","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for March 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.carrolltoncycling.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carrolltoncycling.com\/ccc_rides.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Carrollton Cycling Club Rides<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nRide Schedule<br \/>\n6:00 PM Monday and Wednesday<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No-Drop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ride, Irving Bible Church, Irving. About 23 miles at an average 13MPH No-Drop pace.<br \/>\nContact Bob Chaplin bobchaplin@verizon.net<\/p>\n<p>6:00 PM Monday and Wednesday<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Intermediate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ride, Irving Bible Church, Irving. About 27 miles at an average 16MPH+ Moderate to Intermediate pace.<br \/>\nContact Greg Borchert: greg@borchert.com<\/p>\n<p>9:00 AM Saturday Morning<br \/>\nAndrew Brown Park East, Coppell. About 45 to 60 miles at a challenging to fast pace. Important, read details.<br \/>\nContact Intermediate<br \/>\nAl Thibodeau: athibo@verizon.net<br \/>\nFast &#8211; Harmon Hardy: hshardy@qvti.com<\/p>\n<p>9:00 AM Saturday Morning<br \/>\nDowntown Carrollton Gazebo, Carrollton TX<br \/>\n35E and Belt Line. About 38 miles at a Moderate pace.<br \/>\nContact Valerie Meyer: vdmeyer2000@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>9:30 AM Sunday Morning<br \/>\nGun Shop and Chocolate Shop Parking Lot at Rosemead and Marsh, Carrollton TX. About 32 miles at a recovery pace.<br \/>\nContact Valerie Meyer: vdmeyer2000@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bikefriendlyrichardson.org\/2011\/03\/24\/do-you-want-off-road-biking-trails-in-richardson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Do You Want Off-Road Biking Trails In Richardson?<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby dickdavid<br \/>\nAlthough we are typically a voice for non-sport cycling in Richardson, we do love all forms of bike riding.<\/p>\n<p>As with casual cycling and commuting, another type of riding we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see much of in town is mountain or off-road biking. Of course, the main reason for that is we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any official off-road cycling trails. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biketexas.org\/en\/news\/education\/1074-support-biketexas-at-hebs-statewide-in-april\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Support BikeTexas at HEBs Statewide in April<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby emma@biketexas.org (Emma Cravey)<br \/>\nAs an Earth Share organization, BikeTexas is pleased to announce that H-E-B has selected EarthShare of Texas to be the beneficiary of its in-store coupon promotion for April, in recognition of Earth Day. This means that customers can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.alpineavalanche.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpineavalanche.com\/news\/article_b7f90052-562d-11e0-a804-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>It&#8217;s almost time for Hammerfest bike races in Davis Mountains<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Alpine Avalanche<br \/>\nFrom 300 to 400 racers from all across Texas and the US are drawn to this event to test themselves against our West Texas mountains. Hammerfest is sanctioned by USA Cycling and is a state level race with the Texas Bicycle Racing Association, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/7488599.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/cycling\/7488599.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cycling notebook: Trails could use show of support<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Houston Chronicle<br \/>\n&#8230; the US Forest Service and the Texas Parks and Wildlife. It was funded by a major grant from the Recreational Trails Program with an assisting grant from Bikes Belong, an industry trade group dedicated to promoting bicycle safety and accessibility. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrollton Cycling Club Rides Ride Schedule 6:00 PM Monday and Wednesday \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No-Drop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ride, Irving Bible Church, Irving. About 23 miles at an average 13MPH No-Drop pace. Contact Bob Chaplin bobchaplin@verizon.net 6:00 PM Monday and Wednesday \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Intermediate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ride, Irving Bible Church, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-march-24th\/\"><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":[2344,2567,660,2600,119,1730],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-friendly-richardson","tag-carrollton-cycling","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-earthshare-of-texas","tag-fort-davis-hammerfest","tag-houston-chronicle-cycling-notebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-21q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","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=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}