HBC New Years Pot Luck Lunch And Ride
Houston Bicycle Club
9:00 AM January 1, 2012
Lunch: 11:30AM. Join us for the annual New Years Day pot luck feast. Start with a leisurely in-town ride through West University, Bellaire, The Galleria, Memorial Park, and Montrose. Then bring out your best dish for the traditional pot luck lunch! Prizes will be given for the most tasty homemade dish and dessert! Turkey, ham, and drinks provided by the HBC. Many attendance prizes will also be awarded. Start the new year right with riding buddies and great food! …

Waco Bicycle Club Rides
Sunday Beginner Mountain Bike
Sunday 02:00 PM
Mountain/beginner More

Waco Dam
Tuesday 05:30 PM
Road/all levels More

KOW
Wednesday 05:30 PM
Road/drop, training More

Thursday Hewitt Park Road Ride
Thursday 05:30 PM
Road/all levels More

Indian Springs Park Community Ride
Saturday 09:00 AM
Road/all levels More

Fort Worth Bicycling Association Ride
Kowbell Kountry Kruse
Date     Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:00 am
Type of Ride     Club Event
Location     Mansfield TX
Sponsor     Jackie and Beth Robinson
Email Contact     bikingtexas@att.net
Phone Contact     817-205-7494
Join Jackie and Beth for ride out of Mansfield. Routes or 35 and 62 miles are available. The ride starts at Mansfield Legacy High School at 1263 North Main in Mansfield.

North Texas Cycling
NTC is proud to announce that for the 2012 season we have launched Cowboys Racing.

This group will be led by Derek Whisenhunt, President and Race Team Director. We would like to Thank Bicycles Inc for their sponsorship. This is going to be a great year of racing.
Introducing the Cowboys Racing Team:
Aaron Grisham
Ryan Lorimer
Scotty Taylor
Derek Whisenhunt
Jamie Zitnik
Greg Wood
Florentino Martinez
Enoc Shida

This is not a Texas race but Colorado is a bordering state and a number of fans go from Texas.

Inside Cycling TV Broadcasting USA Pro Cycling Challenge Host City Announcement Tuesday
posted by Tyler (Editor) – www.bikerumor.com
PRESS RELEASE: Beginning a new partnership with the prestigious USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage race, InsideCycling.TV (ICTV) announces that it will provide the live internet broadcast for next week’s exclusive celebration for the event’s 2012 official host cities. Live streaming video of this special event, with athlete interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, will be produced and broadcast by ICTV on Tuesday, December 13 from 4p.m. to 6p.m. (MST).

USA Pro Cycling Challenge, recently elevated to a 2.HC stage race by the Union Cycliste Internationale, unveiled the names of the 12 Colorado host cities for the 2012 event this past week. At Tuesday’s private reception in Denver, Colo., an all-star cast of professional cyclists and Colorado Senator Al White, who serves…

Just because you are a recreational biker does not mean you cannot eat right.

What’s Wrong with the U.S. Dietary Guidelines?
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
December 11, 2011 Issue
Walter Willett, the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, is the most published nutritionist in the world. He thinks that the U.S. Dietary Guidelines are flawed because they cater to large food-selling companies (N Engl J Med October 27, 2011;365:1563-1565). North Americans suffer premature death from poor eating habits that increase their risk for obesity, heart attacks, strokes, gout, and certain cancers. Dr. Willett says “The dietary guidelines should base recommendations primarily on foods, not…

The 100 degree weather is long gone but this will come in handy when the heat returns in a few months (I hope).

Neck Cooling Helps You Go Faster in Hot Weather
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
December 4, 2011 Issue
Placing a cooling band on the neck before the start of a 90-minute time trial helps you run faster in hot weather (Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, December 2011; 43(12):2388-2395). Replacing the cooling neck band every 30 minutes offered no additional benefit.

More than 80 percent of the energy used to power your muscles is lost as heat, so during intense exercise in the heat, body temperature rises. This slows you down as the limiting factor to how fast you can run is the time it takes to bring oxygen into muscles through the bloodstream. A rise in body temperature increases the amount of oxygen your muscles need and slows you…