{"id":895,"date":"2008-07-18T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2008-07-18T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T05:00:28","slug":"texas-cyclists-to-ride-3300-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/texas-cyclists-to-ride-3300-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas cyclists to ride 3,300 miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalia Ciolk, dailytexanonline.com<\/p>\n<p>Six Texas cyclists are traveling across the country to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The 33-day, 3,300-mile journey from San Diego to Washington, D.C., began July 1 and included a stop at Mellow Johnny&#8217;s Bike Shop in Austin Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Each rider has been affected by cancer in different ways, and all were inspired to hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our basic premise is that we all have a connection with cancer,&#8221; said former Livestrong Challenge rider Joe Haeggquist, who as a teenager lost his best friend to leukemia.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"dailytexanonline.com\" href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytexanonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper410\/news\/2008\/07\/18\/TopStories\/Texas.Cyclists.To.Ride.3300.Miles.For.Cancer.Foundation-3392324.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">link to the full story at dailytexanonline.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"kfdm.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kfdm.com\/news\/record_27004___article.html\/southeast_miles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Another report from kfdm.com<\/a><\/strong> (Beaumont, TX)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a record that&#8217;s never been accomplished before&#8230;. riding a bicycle 33-hundred miles in 33 days.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so&#8230; six Southeast Texans hope to break a world record but that&#8217;s not their main goal.<\/p>\n<p>Six Southeast Texas cyclists got to thank Beaumont in person for supporting their mission. Today, they&#8217;re joined by 45 other Southeast Texans for encouragement as they make the half way point in their journey. They&#8217;re biking across the USA raising money for the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalia Ciolk, dailytexanonline.com Six Texas cyclists are traveling across the country to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The 33-day, 3,300-mile journey from San Diego to Washington, D.C., began July 1 and included a stop at Mellow Johnny&#8217;s <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/texas-cyclists-to-ride-3300-miles\/\"><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":[22],"tags":[174,272,295],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-ride","tag-cancer-ride","tag-lance-armstrong-foundation","tag-texas-cyclists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-er","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}