A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from a guy named Bob who was in Paris and was about to move to New Orleans to start Law School at Tulane. I often get e-mails like that, since I'm the website contact for the club. Anyway, he arrived in town recently and called me yesterday to find out the details on the training rides and that sort of thing, and to see if he could get a ride to the Time Trial this weekend since he doesn't have a car. Turns out he rented an apartment just about half a mile down South Claiborne Ave. from me, so he met me at 6 a.m. this morning so I could show him the way to the morning training ride. He looks like he'll be a good rider. When things got fast on the way back he hung in there near the front and ended up with me in a 4-person group hammering along the levee at 30 mph for a while. On the way home he asked if I knew where he could pick up an old mountain bike or something cheap that he could use to commute. Turned out I had an old mountain bike in my basement that I had picked up from somebody's trash about a month ago, so he'll take that and clean it up (rusty chain, broken cables, etc., but round wheels and working brakes). Glad I found a home for it. I hate to see bikes go to waste, even those cheap 40-pound mountain bikes! This wasp sting from yesterday has my whole forearm swollen. It hurts when I ride down bumpy streets!
Good news! I think I may be able to ride the time trial this Sunday. Well maybe that kind of news isn't really so good, considering how much I despise time trials. They're right up there with visits to the dentist on my list. The kind of thing that you know you should do once in a while, but you don't really look forward to it. Anyway, turns out we don't have to be in Florida for that site visit until Sunday evening, so we can probably hop over to LaPlace for the TT and then just head East on I-10 after that for 5 hours to Sandestin. Please light a couple of candles for the old Volvo!!
Meanwhile, I've got a TON of work to wrap up today and tomorrow. You know what they say: "Work Hard, Play Hard!"
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