{"id":9764,"date":"2011-09-21T22:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:19:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:19:36","slug":"texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-september-21st2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/texas-bicycling-blog-and-news-roundup-for-september-21st2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bicycling Blog and News Roundup for September 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011 Tyler Retreat<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nLone Star Cyclists
\nThe club has once again decided to hold its annual Fall Club Bicycle Retreat at Whispering Pines RV Resort October 7-9 (www.whisperingpinesrvresort.com). The resort\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s address is 5583 FM 16 East. This location is 4.5 miles northeast of Tyler State Park, which is north of Tyler. It will be beautiful riding in what should be ideal fall weather. A note about Whispering Pines RV Resort: their online reservation system is not currently…<\/p>\n

Maple & Waylon Cyclocross<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nContact Name \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Andrew Willis\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Contact Phone \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0512-745-5469\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Contact Email \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0andaroowillis@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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Recreational Sports Calendar & Sign-up Sheet – Sept. 21, 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nSan Antonio Express-News
\nBicycling: Today, 8 a.m., Wheelers Senior Ride, 30 miles, Floore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Country Store, Helotes. 210-643-0314.
\n…Bicycling: Saturday, 8 a.m., Cibolo Ride, 20, 27, 39, 51, 66 and 71 miles, city hall parking lot, Cibolo. 210-884-9470. …<\/p>\n

Favorite Bike Shops – Mountain Bike Review<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Pat
\nI’m trying to compile a list of favored bike shops in a few TX cities and was hoping you all can help. The list will be given to our Rep who will be visiting the Southwest.<\/p>\n

I need shop info for Dallas\/FW, San Antonio, and Austin. If you have other cities\/shops you prefer I’d like to hear them. I hope you can help. …<\/p>\n

Sid Richardson Trail work day, September 24, 2011<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nNTMBP | North Texas Mountain Bike Patrol
\nThe Sid Richardson End of Summer Order of the Arrow (OA) event will occur on September 24, 2011. This event requires adults to supervise scouts working to achieve their Order of the Arrow status. If you are interested in supporting this event and helping to build more trail at Sid Richardson then this will be a…<\/p>\n

Review of Strava.com bicycling GPS based \u00e2\u20ac\u0153social fitness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d site<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Lars\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Cyclist
\nIf you do a lot of cycling and ride the same rides regularly, chances are that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably compared your average speed to some of your previous rides. And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably wondered how your speed compares to everyone else who rides that same stretch.<\/p>\n

Well, wonder no more! Because when you sign up for an account with Strava.com and upload data from your Garmin device, or use the Strava app on your iphone or Android phone, you can record your ride and upload it to…<\/p>\n

Review: Serfas TSL-500 True 500 LED bicycle headlight<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Lars\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Cyclist
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\nBecause of work and family obligations, my cycling begins at 5:45 a.m. each morning, when I leave the house and start riding toward White Rock Lake in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Riding that early in the morning, I need a good headlight for most of the year. In June and July, I usually only need it for 30 minutes or so. But for the rest of the year, I might need it for up to an hour or more before the sun comes up and it is light enough to see without a light. …<\/p>\n

From pavement to dirt: Training<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby elliott\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Austin on Two Wheels
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153From pavement to dirt\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a new series I am writing about my experience taking up mountain biking and training to compete in the Sabertooth Offroad division of the Natural Caverns Duathlon. This will be my first mountain bike race, and I will use the Dirt Derby series and TXBRA cyclocross races to racing myself into shape. This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s installment will cover training. The next post will be about the bikes I will use to train.<\/p>\n

I have to admit mapping out a training plan is one of my favorite parts of preparing to do a race or challenging endurance event. It is a fresh start and everything looks so impressive laid out on the training calendar. There is…<\/p>\n

Endurance cyclists to race 500 miles in Glen Rose<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Matthew Reagan mreagan@star-telegram.com
\nGive a randonneur at least a dozen gallons of water, a giant stash of protein and carb-loaded fuel, a sleeping bag and a tent, a few bottles of sunscreen and a reliable, comfortable bike and you’ve got one happy weekend warrior.<\/p>\n

Randonneurs, or endurance cyclists, thrive on competing against the clock on long distance rides and more than 300 of them from across the world will be in Glen Rose starting Thursday for the Texas Time…<\/p>\n

Shops Focus on Service to Better Compete<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nBy Matt Wiebe\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Bicycle Retailer
\nHATTIESBURG, MS\u00e2\u20ac\u201dInternet sales are the largest challenge to brick-and-mortar shops. And many shop owners respond by doing what they do best: face-to-face communication with customers.<\/p>\n

…Jeff Bailey, owner of Bikesport in Houston, Texas, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t downplay the impact of Internet retailing when he notes that he felt the same way when mail-order retail took off in the \u00e2\u20ac\u212280s.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just are not going to beat anyone on price, and that is not the business I want,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bailey said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had two Internet bikes come in this morning in boxes that needed…<\/p>\n

Ride Recap 9\/21\/2011, Erwin Park<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Shawn\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Mountain Bike Trails
\nToday was a wonderful day, I took the day off of my 9-5 job so that my fiance and I could get our marriage license. Since the Colin County courthouse is only miles away from Erwin Park I jumped at the opportunity to get some hard miles in. Especially after just having the first good rain in months on Sunday night. …<\/p>\n

Ode to Froyo =>Coaching => Recovery Week<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nby Ken\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Texas Racing Life
\nOne more race weekend to go! My anxious thoughts are paradoxical and jumbled\u00c2\u00a0 in my head. Things like:<\/p>\n

I love racing.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to take a break until November.\u00c2\u00a0 God, I need a break.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to take a break. Running and plyometrics will be fun.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait for the break to be over so I can start training in earnest for next year. Ft Hood NEXT WEEKEND! So lots of tapering this week.\u00c2\u00a0 But, am I tapering too much?\u00c2\u00a0 Actually I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fit in a…<\/p>\n

Snapple-ATC Racing<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nAustin Women’s Cycling Team
\nThere’s one sure way to turn heads in the road racing community \u00e2\u20ac\u201c throw a group of uber-fast age-group triathletes into the women’s cat 4 race and see what happens. (“Surprise” would be an understatement.)<\/p>\n

This June, we got ATC Women’s Racing off the ground, putting together a team of some of the fastest female triathletes and time trialists in Austin. In the ranks, we have five Kona qualifiers and elite age-group triathletes, a former Division-1 runner, and me, a duathlete\/time trialist who’s officially abandoned her running shoes for the bike. Even though…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2011 Tyler Retreat Lone Star Cyclists The club has once again decided to hold its annual Fall Club Bicycle Retreat at Whispering Pines RV Resort October 7-9 (www.whisperingpinesrvresort.com). The resort\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s address is 5583 FM 16 East. This location is 4.5 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[2989,2991,2993,660,2992,2983,2985,229,2467,2984,2990,2322,1140,2988,2986,2994,2987,2456],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-headlight","tag-bicycle-retailer","tag-coaching","tag-digest-of-bicycle-blog-posts","tag-erwin-park","tag-fall-club-bicycle-retreat","tag-favorite-bike-shops","tag-glen-rose-texas","tag-lone-star-cyclists","tag-maple-waylon-cyclocross","tag-mountain-bike-training","tag-randonneur","tag-san-antonio-events","tag-serfas-tsl-500","tag-sid-richardson-trail","tag-snapple-atc-racing","tag-strava-com","tag-texas-racing-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-2xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764","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=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}