(Registration rights) Cycling in Austin Texas
No commentsBy Ki Gray
Austin, Texas, has always boasted a highly active populace, and is often listed among the nation’s healthiest and most active cities. Cycling plays a huge role in this fitness-focused city, with an abundance of resources available to cyclists of every age and experience level. The unique landscape and close proximity to the rolling Texas hill country make it uniquely suited to both mountain biking and road biking alike, and enthusiasts of both sports flock to the city as a result.
Road biking is an extremely popular sport in Austin. Hundreds of cyclists pedal their way through its surrounding areas, taking in the scenery and the challenging, rolling hills that run for miles upon miles. Highway 360, which runs in a semicircle west of the city, is one of the most popular routes for road bikers, with its picturesque views, wide shoulders and bike lanes, and seemingly endless rolling hills. Within the city itself, there are a wide variety of beautiful, challenging road ways and routes that are dotted daily with road bikers. Mount Bonnel, located in the southwest central Austin, is a popular destination for cyclists and hikers alike, with stunning views, winding roads and steep climbs.
South Austin’s Veloway is another haven for road bikers (a paved loop several miles long that’s off limit to cars and runners); it offers unobstructed, safe riding, making it an ideal place for beginners to practice and families with young children to ride safely. Hundreds of Austin cyclists flock to the Veloway each weekend, and it’s often used as a starting point for group rides, classes and other cycling events.
Mountain bikers don’t have to look far to find a wealth of great riding throughout the city and its surrounding areas. The Greenbelt, which runs right through the middle of south-central Austin, boasts extensive networks of trails in all degrees of difficulty, from highly technical, professional-grade trails to simpler dirt tracks, perfect for an evening joyride, or even a nice hike. On the north side of town, Walnut Creek Park is another excellent option for mountain bikers of all skill levels. Miles upon miles of wooded trails weave their way through the park, with a variety of routes and skill levels.
Less than an hour outside of Austin, you’ll find Muleshoe State Park, another mountain biker’s haven. Muleshoe is home to a beautiful seven-mile loop of rocky climbs, narrow switchbacks, and steep descents. The shaded landscape is visually stunning, with deer bounding through the trees and dramatic cliffs edging along the trails. Another out-of-town cycling option is Milton Reimer’s Ranch county park. Though less shaded than Muleshoe park, Reimer’s offers just as much technicality, with miles of single track, treacherous rock gardens, and beautiful views of Texas savannah.
Regardless of your experience level, time allotment or desired degree of difficulty, Austin, Texas, and its surrounding areas offer an endless range of options when it comes to cycling. It’s no wonder, then, that Austin is home to one of the nation’s largest and most active cycling communities. Whether you’re looking for a peaceful evening road ride or an epic mountain biking adventure, you don’t have to look far to find it in Austin.
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Funny Sports Jokes
By anne gilardo
Funny jokes about sport are great! These are some of my favourites…
Supplemental Rules for Bowling
If you holler “overs!” before the ball passes the arrows, you get to throw the ball over, unless of course, you get a strike. In which case, you can renege on the “overs”.
When your team is about 10 marks down in the 8th or 9th frame, you can invoke the rule “First Team Through Bowling Wins the Game”, and your team still has a chance.
After a member of the opposing team bowls 4 strikes in a row, he/she must bowl the next 4 frames blindfolded. If he/she continues to strike, his/her shoelaces will be tied together for 2 frames.
When you leave the 10-pin and you know you can’t make the spare, but another member of your team can, invoke the “Designated Bowler” rule.
After you have 4 splits in one game, you may say “Kings X” and take those 4 frames over. However, if you split on the 2nd time around, you accept it. After all, “Fair is Fair”.
If your ball goes in the gutter and jumps back onto the lane, knocking dow pins, by golly, you get them! That’s much harder than to knock them down the conventional way. Good bowling should be recognized.
A ball should be declared dead when you bowl 3 games without a strike. It shall be the owners privilege to decide on the disposition of said dead ball - Burial at Sea, Dropped from an airplane over a live volcano, or a simple burial in the city dump. For a small fee, a league officer can be bribed to deliver a short eulogy.
This is another funny joke I like…
Two fellas are fishing in a boat under a bridge.
One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge.
He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head.
The procession crosses the bridge and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing.
The other guy says, “That was touching. I didn’t know you had it in you.”
The first guy responds, “Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for 40 years.”
And finally I like these 10 reasons not to jog…
1. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now & we don’t know where the heck she is.
2. The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
3. I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost a pound. Apparently you have to show up.
4. I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
5. I don’t exercise at all. If God meant us to touch our toes, he would have put them further up our body.
6. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
7. I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
8. The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.
9. If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
10. I don’t jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
Funny jokes keep us all happy and felling good!
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Gambling for a Living: How to Become a Professional Gambler
By Eden Katz
The concept of becoming a professional gambler appeals to many amateur gamblers. Many of them are taking it seriously, relocating to Las Vegas or Atlantic City and spending their days around the blackjack or poker tables or at the sportsbook or race book. Most of them return home broke and disappointed, few of them actually make it.
Becoming a professional gambler is not as easy as it seem. Being a talented poker or blackjack player with a background of notable winning is not always enough. Having unlimited funding is always an advantage, but cannot assure you a successful gambling career, the same goes for luck. In order to become a professional gambler, you must have different qualities such as high tolerance, ability to focus, realistic but positive perspective, high level of self discipline, and more.
For starters, in order to become a professional gambler, you must have a big enough bankroll that will be able to cover up your losses. At one point or the other, you will find yourself losing. Every professional gambler, as skilled and talented as he might be, is going through losing periods. You cannot avoid losing but the least you can do is be prepared in advance.
Many of the people who give up their professional gambling career aspiration do it because they did not take care of a sufficient bankroll to cover up their unexpected losses. A realistic bankroll is estimated as a minimum of 100,000 dollars. Realism, by the way, is a key word. Although gambling for a living may sound like a dream job, you must wake up and be aware to all the realistic aspects of it.
Whether you intend to be a professional blackjack or poker player, sports bettor or horse racing handicapper, you should learn to master your gambling field. It means reading every book available on the market, learning every strategy and betting system, practicing your play and writing notes after each playing session. If you want to become a professional blackjack player, learn all about card counting, shuffle tracking and the optimal blackjack strategy. If poker is the field of your experts, become a master in poker strategy, poker tells, etc.
How to Make 100,000 Dollars a Year Gambling for a Living authored by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth is a good book to start. It is one of the most comprehensive books ever written about the subject and it covers most of the ways to gamble for a living including professional poker, blackjack, video poker, sports betting, horse racing betting, casinos promotions and more. For further information on the subject, you can pick up tips from the internet and/or even attend gambling conferences.
However, as I mentioned in the beginning of the article, becoming a professional gambler requires much more than a gaming skill. First, it requires a strong character and even stronger will to gamble professionally. It will not be easy. You are about to face tough competition, lose huge amounts of money, criticized by the society that will look at you as a parasite and a bum, and these are only few of the problems you are heading. Can you handle this? If you are keen about trying, and you can afford it financially, I say go for it.
Eden Katz is an amateur gambler who had gained vast experience in casino gambling and online casino gambling. She is the editor of an online casino portal that provides information on casinos for American players, poker, craps, baccarat and other casino games.
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