Pretty. Pretty Windy. Pretty Damned Windy!

A cool front blasted through yesterday afternoon dumping tons of water on us but leaving in its wake beautiful blue skies, moderate temps and a brutal North wind. The old legs weren't complaining very much as I rode out to meet the group for the long Tuesday ride. The turnout was a little lower than usual with maybe a dozen riders. The going was tough, especially on the way out with a strong and gusty crosswind much of the way. Rob was doing his own thing today, shooting off the front periodically to hammer out some longish intervals, then retreating to the safety of the wobbly back.

A visiting rider, Andy Munas from the Penn State cycling team was with us today on a bike that Robin loaned him for the duration. Penn State has one of the older and more established cycling teams and Andy turned out to be a quite capable rider. Toward the end of the ride things ramped up really fast for a few miles, taking the speed up to the low 30s and predictibly shattering the paceline about a mile before Jefferson Playground. At one point Rob pulls off at about 30 mph and gets a little irritated that Andy doesn't come around to take his pull. The problem was that the shifter on Andy's bike was sticky, as Robin had noticed yesterday in fact, and for a while he couldn't get it to downshift so he was spinning his ass off in something like a 53 x 17. Andy tried to explain but Rob had his earphones in and didn't hear a thing I guess and rode off into the sunrise. On the way home I took Andy for a little tour through Tulane campus since it'd be a shame to be in college and visit a city without checking out the local campus.

I'm hoping to get the complete results from Rouge-Roubaix from Shane some time today so I can work on getting the LCCS points updated. This weekend is up in the air for me since I'm supposed to be going up to Auburn for one of The Daughter's gymnastics meets and I haven't worked out exactly when I will have to leave. I'm sure I'll be able to get in a ride in the morning, but it will probably have to be earlier and shorter than the Giro.

I wonder if there's a group ride in Auburn on Sunday morning??