Veterans’ bicycle  ride to pass through San Marcos
by The San Marcos Mercury
About 140 war veterans and their supporters have registered to participate in the second annual Ride 2 Recover Texas Challenge next Tuesday.

The local community is invited to venture out to Embassy Suites and the San Marcos Conference Center on April 6 to give them a San Marcos-style welcome on their first over-night stop on their six-day, 350-mile bicycle ride from San Antonio to Arlington. …

Baylor Races Up Next Texas High School Cycling League: The Home …
by League Director
After the first two weekends of the Texas High School Cycling League spring race series we have seen 29 different schools or school districts represented from across the state of Texas and even including Arkansas. …

‘Tour Dallas’ a cycling event for the whole family! | The Wheel …
by admin
A north Texas celebrity

We caught up with local biking celebrity ‘Bikin Mike’,  who is the founder and ‘brains’ behind the ‘Tour Dallas’ event.  It’s important to note that it’s ‘Tour Dallas’ which is something you DO and not ‘Tour of Dallas’ a thing or an event.

He was gracious enough, to let us bounce off a few questions of him:

How did the ‘Tour’ come into existence and what goal are your trying to accomplish?

I felt like there were no bike rides for the casual cyclist. 80% of all bikes sold…

Injured Veterans to Set off on 2nd Annual Texas Challenge
SAN ANTONIO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–More than 100 injured veterans and their supporters will set off across Texas on April 6, starting the six-day, 350-mile Ride 2 Recovery Texas Challenge. The event is sponsored by UnitedHealthcare. Ride 2 Recovery supports indoor Spinning® Recovery Labs and outdoor cycling programs at Military and VA locations around the U.S., aiding the rehabilitation and recovery efforts of the injured veterans. …

The Road to California
By Jan Gagliano
Day 56 – Rest day in Schulenburg, Texas: Let’s go to Schulenburg, Texas – me and Irene and the bikes . . .
Friday March 26, 2010
This has been a good day. The Schulenburg RV park is not scenic. It’s fairly close quarters, just south of I-10 and right next to Hwy. 77 – but it’s a good place. We are surrounded by RV’s, which we’ve learned can be a desirable thing. Most people retreat inside at night and it’s peaceful. The toilets, showers and laundry are mostly ours and beautifully clean. The weather was still chilly last night – in the mid-40’s, but the sleeping wasn’t too bad. Today was a beautiful sunny day in the 70’s. …

Pace Bend Race (Mountain Bike). -  03-29-2010
from www.texasphotoforum.com
So, I helped out with a race over the weekend. Helped fill water bottles on day, the race day set out to get some pictures. Few things I learned. Be sure to apply sunblock. I did but it was already after I noticed I was getting a little burned. …

After only a few weeks, it’s clear peopleforbikes.org has hit on something pretty powerful.

So far, more than 6,500 people have signed our pledge in support of biking — and our numbers keep growing every hour. Riders across the country are showing that Americans of all walks of life think that bicycling is important and warrants further support from our leaders.

We’ve got big plans to build this movement, but we also know the best ideas will come from riders like you. As one of the first people to sign the pledge, your opinion on how we shape the future of peopleforbikes.org is important to us.

Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
April 4, 2010
Benefits of High-Intensity Interval Training.
To be competitive, all athletes must train very intensely some of the time.  New research from McMaster University in Canada shows that short term, high-intensity interval training  on a bike can also provide you with all the health and fitness benefits of exercising less intensely for a much longer period of time (The Journal of Physiology, March 2010).  Subjects used a standard stationary bicycle and performed a workout of ten 1-minute sprints with a 1-minute rest between each at 95 percent of their maximal…