{"id":8480,"date":"2011-05-26T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2011-05-26T23:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T04:37:49","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for May 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/wacobicycleclub.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/wacobicycleclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Waco Bicycle Club Rides<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nThursday<br \/>\nThursday Beginning Cyclist Ride<br \/>\nThursday 05:30 PM<br \/>\nRoad\/beginner More<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Park Beginner Mountain Bike Ride<br \/>\nThursday 05:30 PM<br \/>\nMountain\/beginner More<\/p>\n<p>Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride<br \/>\nThursday 05:30 PM<br \/>\nRoad\/all levels More<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/fitcity\/entries\/2011\/05\/26\/331_million_in_trails_grants_a.html?cxntfid=blogs_fit_city\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>$3.31 Million in Trails Grants Awarded by TPW Commission<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF<br \/>\nThe Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission today approved $3,318,450 million to fund 21 National Recreational Trail Grant projects in communities across the state. The commission also awarded an additional $485,000 in re-allocated trail funds to underwrite trail improvements in seven state parks and three local communities. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/19355\/road-2-recovery-dont-mess-with-texas-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Road 2 Recovery Don&#8217;t Mess With Texas Challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nfrom www.army.mil<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/usarmy.vo.llnwd.net\/e2\/-images\/2009\/04\/07\/34635\/size0-army.mil-34635-2009-04-07-110402.jpg?resize=512%2C682\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"682\" \/><br \/>\nDisabled veterans, cycling legends and supporters engage in the 2009 Road 2 Recovery fund-raising rides for cyclists along both coasts of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Held in partnership with the Fitness Challenge Foundation, the R2R will raise money to support Spinning\u00c2\u00ae Recovery Labs and outdoor cycling programs at Military and VA locations around the U.S. to help injured veterans overcome obstacles they face. Cycling is an important part of the recovery and rehabilitation program for two reasons: &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefortbend.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefortbend.com\/stories\/246996-sugar-land-receives-144k-state-grant-for-bike-trail\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Sugar Land receives $144K state grant for bike trail<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Scott Gordon<br \/>\nThe Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission handed out about $3.3 million in grants for trails on Thursday, including $144,443 for the City of Sugar Land.<\/p>\n<p>The city will use the money to build a parking lot and a half-mile trail that will connect to mountain-bike trails being created along the Brazos River. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waco Bicycle Club Rides Thursday Thursday Beginning Cyclist Ride Thursday 05:30 PM Road\/beginner More Cameron Park Beginner Mountain Bike Ride Thursday 05:30 PM Mountain\/beginner More Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride Thursday 05:30 PM Road\/all levels More $3.31 Million in Trails <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-may-26th\/\"><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":[488,660,2744,2743,1737],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bike-trails","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-road-2-recovery","tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife-commission","tag-waco-bicycle-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","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=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}