Happy Thanksgiving Day. May you be blessed and thankful. It is fitting that the amount of news is limited tonight. The second article below raises an important point about what you drink when you ride and after the ride.

Keeping Cool In The Texas Heat
from snowbikes.blogspot.com
If you love to ride your bike in Dallas, Houston or anywhere else in Texas, you’ll ride in any weather – in the wind; in the rain; and, for your diehards, even in the snow. But it’s certain that most of you have a really hard time riding in the heat.

Most individuals would rather ride in the summer than in other times of the year, and there are those who shy away from the heat and humidity that the summer months…

Study: Sports beverage with half carbs, fewer calories boosts endurance
from (PhysOrg.com)
Compared to a carbohydrate-only supplement, a low-carb beverage with added protein increases endurance times in cyclists, according to a study out of The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Education.

Research by Dr. Lisa Ferguson-Stegall, who conducted the study as part of her dissertation work in the Exercise…