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There are some fun, unsigned trails in SW Denton near Old Alton bridge

Bike Friendly Denton     @bikedenton        via Twitter

All of these utility easements should have official trails on them, like all the DFW burbs. C’mon, Denton Municipal.

Reimers PT

wood pump track at Reimers Ranch Park

ATXCyclingTeam        @ATXCyclingTeam        via Twitter
Jenny Park wins the Women’s Open at Houston Grand for the 2nd year in a row!! And Kim Ciolli takes 4th today. Great racing ladies!

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The Big Fix Star Walt Dawes completes his 24 hour ride for histiocytosis. Completing the 24 hours with a ride of 1798 laps, 599 km or (for the metrically challenged) 371.58 miles. Check the links: Big ups to Walt’s ‘corner man’ Mason Courtney, and Keirin Koh Annoura (Samurai…

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Baylor’s Danielle Bradley (@DBradley525) finishes 9th in D2 women’s road race, awesome!

How to Recover from Muscle Soreness Caused by Intense Exercise
Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine
May 6, 2012
Muscle soreness should be part of every exercise program. If you don’t exercise intensely enough on one day to have sore muscles on the next, you will not gain maximum fitness and you are also losing out on many of the health benefits of exercise. The benefits of exercise are much greater with intense exercise than with casual exercising.

You must damage your muscles to make them grow and become stronger. When muscles heal, they are stronger than they were before you damaged them. All athletes train by “stressing and recovering”. On one day, they take a hard workout in which they feel their muscles burning. Eight to 24 hours after they finish this intense exercise, their muscles start to feel sore. This is called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). Then they take easy workouts until the soreness is gone, which means that their…

Bike awareness; Steiner Ranch congestion; Voters’ guide helps
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Comments from our readers
Bike awareness
Hi, my name’s Rebecca, and I want to make a difference. I love to bicycle, but with all the bike accidents I’m scared to. I’m also worried about my dad. He likes to bike, that’s why if we make people aware of bikers I don’t have to worry about him. That’s why I want to make…

NICA High School Cycling News Round-up May 6, 2012
By: Paul Skilbeck            www.cyclingnews.com
…Athlete profile: Boone Flynn (Texas High School Cycling League)
At 17 years old, only two years into bicycle competition, Boone Flynn of College Station, Texas, has become the first junior varsity winner of the Texas High School Mountain Bike League.

Mountain biking was Boone’s entree to the sporting world. “Cycling is the only sport I am active in,” said Flynn, who lists no other sports or sporting achievements in his school resume. Last year, as a mountain bike racer in events around Texas, Flynn heard from Vance McMurry about the NICA system and that he was bringing high school…

Abilene police, Taylor County deputies to ride in Police Unity Tour this week
By Greg Kendall-Ball        Abilene ReporterNews
Before the sun came up Sunday, a pair of Abilene police department officers pulled out of Abilene — headed for the east coast.

It’s hard to say which will cause the most hindquarters discomfort in the coming days: the 1,700-mile road trip from Abilene to New Jersey or the 300-mile bike ride from New Jersey to the nation’s capitol to follow.

Officers Carye Adkins and Joshua Ward left at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, hauling a trailer with bicycles and other equipment on their way to participate in the…

Hamilton Hill-Aceous
by Roy and Christine        Pedal Pushers

I remember now why Hamilton calls its ride “Hill-Aceous.” And as their t-shirt depicts, they are not even apologetic!
So why did one of their largest turn-outs show up on a hot, windy day in May? The ride is “fun,” volunteers are great, proceeds are for a worthy cause, and the roads are some of the best around. I put “fun” in quotation marks. People pay good money to ride on roller coasters don’t they? We just rode the roller coasters on our…

Ride interupted by cattle drive
by hwycruiser        www.bikeforums.net

I thought y’all who ride the back roads of Texas would appreciate my encounter on my morning ride today. I had to pull off the road to let a cattle drive pass by. I didn’t mind except for the mess they made all over the road.

National Trails Day June 2 at BCGB
by chardog            Austin Ridge Riders
All, Bart Bombay (Huckleberry) & I will be leading some projects on the main BGCB trail just upstream from Twin Falls. Stream bank armoring, closing off and re-veg of poorly drained mud pit trial sections and better defining and fine tuning of higher, well drained trails above the mud pits. The net result…

Westside Hills
El Paso Bicycle Club Ride
Saturday, May 19  8:00 am
Description:     Meet at Cimarron Park (Northern Pass one block east of Resler). Explore the ups and downs of the West Side, including various “Ridges” and other challenging climbs. 25 miles, moderate pace. To get there, take Resler north past Helen of Troy and turn right on Northern Pass. …