{"id":8314,"date":"2011-05-15T03:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T08:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2011-05-14T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:30:15","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my wife and I attended the Houston Area Special Olympics Cycling competition. The site was Memorial Park in Houston. Competition began at 8:00 AM and continued until after 3:00 PM. Some of the vents include 10K race, 10K time trial, 1K race, 500m race, 25K race, 5K race and a 15K race. Most athletes competed in more than one event. My niece competed in the 1K and 5K race. She won a gold medal in the 1K and a silver in the 5K. The gallery below shows some of the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=225]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/life\/living-my-life-on-two-wheels-in-austin-1475413.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Living my life on two wheels in Austin<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Austin American-Statesman<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.statesman.com\/multimedia\/dynamic\/00872\/lkv-talesgaspar1_872993c.jpg?resize=406%2C661\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"661\" \/><br \/>\nThus began a fitful affair with my training-wheeled bicycle. I say fitful because the first year was good, smooth. My turmoil began upon our family&#8217;s move from Virginia to Texas, where I discovered everyone my age had already learned how to ride&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my wife and I attended the Houston Area Special Olympics Cycling competition. The site was Memorial Park in Houston. Competition began at 8:00 AM and continued until after 3:00 PM. Some of the vents include 10K race, 10K time <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-14th\/\"><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":[2092,660,767],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-austin-cycling","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-special-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}