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Texas Cycling News Digest February 5th

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CCMTB: Longish Lunch Quickie (MTB)

by fefillo        forums.mtbr.com

Hey, it’s not Colorado or Utah but you got to make do with what you got! Anyhow… here’s a few videos of mine of some of the better spots around the Houston area.

A postcard from Brownsville on pedalling and aging

By Alden Moore        www.northbaynipissing.com

Editor’s Note: Former regular Almaguin News contributor Alden Moore sent us this post card from the sunny south. We found it an enjoyable read worth posting.
For the past several years my wife, Sally, and I have been fortunate enough to escape the bone-chilling temperatures and squalid snowstorms so commonplace during our Northern Ontario winters. Instead we spend our winter months at Palm Resaca Park, a safe, friendly gated community in Brownsville Texas.
There are several paved roads in our park and I have turned myself into an ardent bike rider. Constant biking can be an arduous and grueling chore until you can get your legs worked up. And riding around the park can become a little monotonous and mundane.
Brownsville has some very scenic and well laid out bike paths right in the city. Sally had been suggesting for years we ride our bikes over to the closest bike path at the HEB on Paredes. Jaime Zapata road in front of our …

Woof! 2015 Bulldog Bike Ride set for February 21

by Rex Knepp        www.examiner.com


The U. S. Department of Agriculture says that in the Houston area, the average last frost day is February 21. What better way to celebrate the arrival of “spring” (such as it is) than a bicycle ride with a few hundred of your closest friends? This year, the closest date is Saturday, February 21, and the event is the Bulldog Bike Ride. This year’s the tenth edition of this annual ride-slash-pancake pigout.
Riders will find courses of 25, 32 and 50 miles; all of which leave Waller Junior High School starting at 8:00 a.m. You’ll find plenty of familiar territory out there north of the towns of Waller and Prairie View, including some lightly-traveled roads you’ll see again in March’s Bluebonnet Ride. If you haven’t ridden this terrain before, rest assured that it’s a generally flat course with the occasional “roller” and small stream crossing.
Proceeds of this year’s Bulldog Ride will benefit student activities at …

Bike Lanes!

Facts for Five

Bike Lanes! Duncanville is making a move to begin catching up with what we have seen as a growing trend not only across the country and state, but in Dallas County as well.
The Dallas County Bike Plan when completed will connect almost all communities with bike trails, and dedicated and shared lanes on streets.  Part of that plan brings trails to to the front door of Duncanville. Cedar Hill has already jumped on the idea with a few smaller existing trails with more in development.  The Cedar Hill Trail Plan spiderwebs the entire city and will eventually allow bikers a dedicated route to navigate the entire city and access all neighboring towns on bicycle.  The Dallas County Plan Includes …

Faculty host bike ride to honor colleague

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On the morning Monday, Feb. 2, a group of UTHealth Medical School faculty members headed to work on their bikes in the memory of a former colleague.
The morning ride marked the inaugural Bob Lasky Bike to Work Day. Dr. Robert Lasky was a professor in the Department of Pediatrics who died April 15, 2014. His birthday would have been Feb. 2.
“Bob used to ride his bike to work every day and left a lot of friends at UT,” said Dr. Kathleen Kennedy, the Richard W. Mithoff Professor of Pediatrics and director of the MS in Clinical Research Degree Program. “We’re hoping to do it every year.”
The group biked from the Lasky home to the Medical School Building, where they held …

Cyclists enjoy the beauty of Coldspring in annual bike ride

By Jacob McAdams        www.yourhoustonnews.com


The annual Bike Ride Through the Forest and Hills brought in numerous cyclists, some of which experienced the beauty of Coldspring and challenge of the ride for the first time on Jan. 24.
The Bike Ride is a path no greater than 46 miles in length that takes bikers all around Coldspring.
The Kingwood Fillies, the drill team of Kingwood High School, hosts the bike ride every January. The proceeds go to the Fillies.
Cyclists do not have to traverse the entire 46-mile path and instead …

Ride of Silence – White Rock Lake

Bike Friendly Cedars        www.facebook.com

May 20th, at White Rock Lake at 7:00pm
Ride of Silence, a FREE ride and is a slow paced approx 12 mph, with Zero words spoken as we line up and ride between 9-10 miles.
I’m asking everyone to go to www.rideofsilence.org
Order a t-shirt or jersey to wear during the ride. I believe it will make more of a statement to on-lookers what we are riding for.
I believe, we again will get local news coverage from my friends at CBS/DFW channel 11.
Reason: …

Let’s Meetup and Ride the Mountain Bike trails of Memorial Park

Monday, Feb 9, 2015, 5:00 PM

Memorial Park – Soccer/Rugby Pitch Parking lot
6501 Memorial Dr (29.765522, -95.444994) Houston, TX

5 Members Went

Intermediate MTB Ride – Every Monday at Memorial Park. 5pm until Danny gets tired or it gets too dark. Join Danny every Monday for a fun, moderate pace ride through the Memorial Park Trails. The ride starts about an hour before dusk, so the time changes as it gets dark earlier or later. Meet at the parking lot by the Soccer/Rugby field. Bring your …

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Day 2 – Giddings, TX: ride cut short

By Alan Guo        Beaumont to San Francisco (Feb 2015)        www.crazyguyonabike.com

It was a slightly late start today. I stayed up till 1 AM yesterday planning my route, fixing my bike, updating this journal, etc. When I woke up at 5:30, and ate the breakfast that my host Jeff had provided, I went back to take a nap, to get a little extra rest, which helped a little. It was around 9 when I left, and my legs clearly weren’t prime. I averaged about 3 mph slower than yesterday. My legs were tired, there were rolling hills, and it was wet. I’m experiencing saddle sores. I don’t know if it’s from the wetness or if it’s from a lack of lubrication, but I need to find a way to manage it to keep it from getting worse.
Today, I was planning on 150 miles straight from Houston to Austin. I had planned to bike 95 miles to Giddings, TX, and eat at a buffet, which I did. However, I was depleted when I got there, and I knew that no matter how much I ate to replenish my calories, it would be useless because I’m limited to 250 cal/hr of digestion, which is not enough to sustain a reasonable speed for the rest of the 60 miles. Also, because I had …

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