Your legs need more fuel in high country
by San Angelo Standard Times
The problem with running at altitude on steep gradients is that your legs don’t have multiple climbing gears like a bicycle. The trail run, while enjoyable, …

The Song of The RainCrow: Seeing Cycles
by William RainCrow
Now for the bicycle part. I am hugely in favor of bicycle riding. Other than walking, there is no other form of transportation that I know of that is as energy efficient, healthy, or ecologically friendly as bicycling. … I still don’t live on city streets, and I’m not sure if I’d have the courage it takes to ride there, even with the wonderful new dedicated bike lanes. I live out in the country near McDade, Tx now, my bike is an old, but solid, Murray 18 speed mountain …

It’s Time To Ride…to School « It’s Time To Ride!
by cartertx
Earlier this year Patsy Sommer Elementary in Round Rock became the first school in Central Texas to join a unique bike to school program called Boltage. Boltage provides students with a little extra incentive to ride to school … Bicycle safety and awareness classes are taught in PE while students learn about the physical benefits cycling offers them in health class. Robert and 2 other families co-op trips to school with their kids so that one parent rides with 5 kids. …

Mountain biking in Breckenridge: How does it compare to Austin?
by Austin 360
By Pam LeBlanc
We have a world-class mountain biking scene here in Central Texas.

The stair-stepped ledges of Emma Long Metropolitan Park, the rock- and root-studded single track through the Barton Creek greenbelt, and the up-and-down, whoop-de-do terrain of Walnut Creek Metropolitan Park chum up cyclists riding knobby-tired steeds like wriggly worms draw in bass.

So how does mountain biking in Austin, where the elevation is 621 feet at Camp Mabry, compare to mountain biking in the real mountains — the Rocky Mountains of Colorado? …