Well yesterday's meet was kind of disappointing. The Daughter did great, competing on Beam despite her injured ankle, and posting the highest score. Unfortunately, the team had some real problems on Bars and ended up losing to a team that they really should have been able to beat. We camped out at The Daughter's house last night, sleeping on two old couches that were probably rescued from the thrift store. Then it was back to the airport and a couple of rather tedious flights to get back to New Orleans. The trip ended up costing a lot more than I had hoped after all of the changes we had to make, but that's just the way it goes sometimes! I learned some new things, anyway. For example, I learned that when you get an ice cream cone and then walk outside into 11 degree F weather, the water in the ice cream freezes and it gets kind of crunchy. Didn't know that!
So I've been off the bike now since Saturday - three whole days. I never could manage to drum up the enthusiasm to squeeze in a workout at the gym. I'll dive right back in tomorrow morning, though, and I'm sure the three-day layoff won't cause much of anything beyond the natural anxiety that anybody feels when all his competitors are out training and he's not.
Meanwhile, the LAMBRA meeting was last Saturday and there were a couple of somewhat controversial proposals. One is to allow separate Cat. 3 races to count for Series points. If we were consistently getting fields of, say, 50 riders for the combined Cat. 1,2,3 races, I'd say "great! go for it," but the fact is that most of the reglar races have fields of maybe 20 riders, and I just don't see splitting that up into two races. I cetainly don't see how it will help anything.
Had a nice chat with Givo this evening, which I really enjoyed - or maybe it was just the wine?
Naaaa.
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