Warming Up

Got back to the Crescent City late last night after a rather long layover in the Cincinnati airport. The weather in Iowa City was dismal on Sunday, so I never got motivated enough to get any exercise. The fact that I never really had more than a couple of hours free didn't help either. We always end up making trips to the grocery store, Wal-Mart, etc., plus I broke into the attic at their house in order to turn out the light that some workman had left on.

The Daughter's meet went fairly well, even though they didn't win. The team looked good and they made very few big mistakes, which is more than I can say for the guys running the lighting and sound at the Arena (the lights went out completely for a while during warmup and there were a couple of very obvious audio blunders). The Daughter's ankle is still restricting her to beam only, although when one of her teammates twisted an ankle on the first event (vault), they almost put her in the Bars lineup. Anyway, check out those quads!

Just a few guys up on the levee this morning in the thick fog (again!). The weather here is quite warm right now - mid to upper 70s - but the forecast has lots of rain in it. A Cat. 2 woman from D.C. will be in town for a conference later this week and she's looking for some training rides. Hopefully she'll be able to work around the mid-week rain. On the way back from the levee this morning I spotted a Performance wind trainer that someone had put out for the trash. It looked to be in good condition, so I scooped it up and lugged it home. Damn, that thing got heavy!

Gina Voci got an excellent 12th in the Pro/1/2 Women's crit at VOS, and her teammate Paula ended up 9th on GC in the Cat. 3 race. In the grey-haired division, Tom Bain took 2nd on GC and George Heagerty placed 22nd in the 45+ age group. Perhaps the Defeet Team Blog will have more detail later. One of the Team LaS'port riders who lives in Flower Mound, TX (Dallas suburb), Shannon Koch, did well too, placing 16th in the Women's Pro,1,2 race. Quite impressive - mixing it up with the big girls. There are some pics on the Cyclingnews.com site.

I haven't gotten a report on the NOBC team training camp that I had to miss, but I heard the weather was awesome on Saturday so I'll bet they had some great training rides.