Tough Transition

When the alarm went off this morning, I looked over and thought, "good, I can sleep another half-hour before I have to get up." Well, not really. I am apparently having a difficult time making the transition from the Tuesday-Thursday training race schedule to the Wednesday training race schedule, because I thought it was Wednesday. Whenever I do an evening training race, the next morning I feel like I just got off the bike. For the last couple of years that was fine because we ride later on Wednesday. Anyway, I got out to the levee a couple of minutes early (I mean, IF it had been a Wednesday), and it wasn't until Dave and Bob rode up that it finally dawned on me that today was Thursday and the training ride was already half an hour up the road. Sheesh! So we rode steady out past the dip where we caught the group on its way back and had a pretty nice ride. I really do need to get out there and ride by myself more,and it was kinda nice taking those long, long pulls.

Yesterday's Wednesday training race didn't have a very good turnout for some reason. Maybe a dozen guys at the start. A couple of riders took off right at the start - I didn't even know they were out there until they had 30 seconds on the pack. One of them was Charlie Davis. Shortly after that, two riders jumped off the front and bridged up to them, I should have gone with them, but the pack didn't respond much. So I went to the front and, along with Rob K., we tried to get things going to see if we could close, but a certain unnamed NBO rider just kept letting gaps open and wouldn't work except to make fruitless attacks, so the gap grew and eventually Rob got tired of it and went home. I tried to make a decent workout out of it, although that certain NBO rider was taking some sort of perverse delight in attacking me every time I would finish a pull. In the last few miles before the finish I took a pull at the front and dropped back to the back as that same rider let a gap open, so I just let it go and rode in easy.

We could use some more riders out there on Wednesday, guys!!

So an exciting book order came in today. What am I reading, you ask? Well, there' s the ever-popular "How to Lie With Statistics," which I bought just because it is such a classic, along with the more recent "How to Lie with Charts," as if I need any advice on that subject, and "Damned Lies and Statistics." I wanted them as reference materials for the presentation I'm giving in a few weeks. Exciting reading, huh? I think there are actually some interesting examples of misleading statistics that I can use.