Results and Points

This morning's levee ride was pretty fast! The weather was nice except for the overcast skies and light fog, and Rob was obviously looking for a hard ride. Most of the way out we were going 27-28 mph and although I was feeling a little sluggish, I hung in. At one point there was something up the road and the rider ahead of Rob stabbed his brakes. Rob kind of plowed into his rear wheel or something, burned a little rubber off of his tires, but luckily nobody went down. On the return trip we started out kind of easy for a while, but soon we were back up around 27 mph. Toward the end of the ride we could see one of the levee police cars cruising ahead of us at about 20 mph, so we decided it would be unwise to blast past him and everyone slowed down for the last few miles.

So I finally got the LCCS points rankings updated. That took a really, really long time since I had to figure out which people were riding on one-day licenses, which weren't, and which were riding out of category. Not to mention the fact that I needed to get confirmation from Brett about how all of that was supposed to be done. I hope they are more or less correct! The NOBC moved up in the rankings this week quite a bit, due of course to the relatively large turnout we had for a local event. The next big event is the mid-April Tour LeFleur up in Jackson, Mississippi. I sure wish they would put up the event details on the website!

I also spent quite a bit of time today formatting the results of the Rouge-Roubaix road race for uploading to the USCF database. Their database deals with everything as text, so all of the times that are in Excel "time and date" format have to be converted to plain text with a handy-dandy little formula that I made. Then, when they are uploaded to the USCF computer, it spits back a list of errors which are usually names that are spelled incorrectly. All of those need to be corrected before finally hitting the "submit" button. There are always a few riders who don't get their results reported because I can never find them in the USCF membership database, either because they somehow snuck in on expired licenses or because their penmanship is so bad that the best guess as to the spelling of their names is so far off as to be irreconcilable with the USCF list. Sometimes it's probably because they bought or renewed an annual USCF license at registration and it didn't get noted on the start list. Always renew online folks! I have three annual license forms from last Saturday that are still in a folder and I'll probably be well into next week before the USCF gets them in the post-event packet I have to send them, and then who knows how long it will take for someone up in Colorado Springs to actually process them.

Although it's nice to have all of that stuff out of the way now, it was only possible because I put off a number of things at work that will now absolutely need to be done tomorrow because I'm off to scenic Iowa City on Thursday.