Rained heavily all night and woke up to soaking wet streets and cold, humid weather. I'd spent the night at my mother's place dog-sitting and cleaning out the refrigerator to make space for food for one of her neighbors whose husband passed away yesterday (everyone brings food when someone dies). So anyway, there was no ride for me today. I should have known, of course, since I took Monday off. You knew I would get rained out one day this week.
Hey! The USCF has swung a deal with LaQuinta hotels and Baymont Inns for 25% off for USCF members and I might actually be able to get some mileage out of that since there's a convenient Baymont Inn near U. of Iowa and I'm heading up there later this month for three days. The Great Balded One called me from Brookhaven to make a few corrections to the website for the Mississippi Gran Prix, which is looking like it will be a good event. Of course he's starting to get nervous about turnout around now. I also went out with Brooks to check out the criterium course at Zephyr field today. Although it will be basically a big rectangular course in a parking lot, the road surface looks real good so the only issues will be marking the course . If it's windy, I'm sure there will be guys trying to eschelon on the wrong side of the traffic cones and then they will all try to squeeze into the one section of actual roadway on the course. It could get ugly, but without barricades all the way around, that will be the best we can do.
Work has been remarkably heavy lately, but that's better than when it's dead around here. Hopfully the weather will be OK tomorrow morning so I can get back in the saddle because at my age I start gaining weight within 24 hrs of my last training ride just by breathing.
It appears right now that The Daughter's University of Iowa team might actually be able to qualify for the Regional Championships as a result of the convoluted way in which qualifying is determined. The actual methodology used results in a "Regional Qualifying Score" that is used for ranking, but also factored in are the number of teams in each region who rank above a certain position nationally. As far as I can tell, the system is completely unsusceptible to normal methods of analysis, making it almost perfect for this sort of thing. Anyway, the downside there is that we would have to make another expensive trip which is definitely going to cut into my inner tube budget!
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