The Closing Ceremonies were yesterday, and another Olympics is in the record book. I always have this kind of melancholy reflective feeling after the Olympics. It's really the closest the whole world ever comes to The Ideal. I'm not much of a sports spectator, but it's hard not to feel the emotions that the Olympics bring out, and now there's this feeling of emptiness made even worse by the fact that it's also around the end of the cycling season. I guess we're all really just frustrated Olympians in one way or the other.
On the local front, nobody seemed to feel depressed on the weekend Giro rides! The rides were pretty fast on both Saturday and Sunday this week, and I was feeling good for both of them. There was supposed to be a track meet last weekend, but on Friday the organizer sent out an e-mail and cancelled it. I e-mailed him to find out what happened and he said that he had assumed that his meet was included under the USCF permit for the LAMBRA track series, and by the time he found out it wasn't it was too late and the velodrome folks (BREC) required a certificate of insurance. Talk about a lack of communication!! He basically said that LAMBRA screwed him. Sounds to me like he should have confirmed his permit and insurance arrangements more than a couple of days before the meet, though. There is some kind of "issue" between the promoting club (Tiger Cycling Foundation) and the President of LAMBRA that isn't doing anyone any good. They need to just get over it. Anyway, I expect to see a lot of turnover in the LAMBRA officials slots next year.
The Texas folks finally sent out the preliminary results of the Tour of Columbus, which happened A WEEK AGO! Good grief, what a screw-up! The silver lining, however, is that one of the Texas folks and I have gotten in touch with each other and will be working on developing a good Excel workbook that can be used by Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi folks, at least, for stage race results. He send me his version and I sent him the one I used for the Tour de La, so hopefully we can combine the best of both, add a few bells and whistles, and have something that will benefit everyone.
Training time is looking to be tight for me the next few days. I have a marathon of meetings all day tomorrow and Wednesday starting early in the morning, so the morning group rides will be impossible. Hopefully I'll be able to get in a few pre-sunrise miles to counteract all of the coffee I'm liable to be drinking the next couple of days.
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