It was cold this morning, at least by "March in New Orleans standards," and very windy as well. Naturally, that meant a smallish group up on the levee for the 6:15 a.m. ride. Since the group was also running a bit low on horsepower, it also meant we would be turning around at "the dip" rather than going all the way to the end of the bike path. With cloudy skies, the strong Northwest wind, and the pervasive dampness in the air, the ride this morning felt more like work than play. We were down around 20 mph - sometimes slower - most of the way out. Jeff and Ronnie were out off the front for quite a while on their TT bikes practicing riding together for this weekend's 2-man Time Trial. Ronnie turned around early though and headed back. Jeff said something about him being depressed after accidentally deleting a few thousand songs from this Mac while rearranging stuff on his iPod. Oops!
Lots of stuff I need to think about and do before the race on Saturday. I certainly need to get a ton of batteries so that the megaphone and stopwatches are in good shape, plus there are release forms to print out, numbers to sort, start lists to organize, spreadsheets to test, printer drivers to download, etc. I decided to use the little bitty Sony Vaio laptop I have at the office that we keep for when people travel and don't want to lug a full-size laptop around with them. It doesn't have an internal CD or floppy drive and lacks some of the usual accessory connectors, but it sure is light! At least I'm reasonably sure it won't crash on me in the middle of doing results!
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