It's hot and humid and I felt particularly sluggish this morning as I rode over to the levee to meet the group. I think perhaps I've just got a lot of other things on my mind, not the least of which is the upcoming Tour de La. This always happens the week before the Tour!
We use Active.com to handle our online registrations, and I get an e-mail notice every time someone registers. Those notices are getting more and more frequent and online registrations are running well above last year. Whether that translates into more entries overall, or just fewer race-day entries remains to be seen. I'm hoping for the latter, myself. It's looking like the Cat. 5 field may fill up before race day. As of right now (around 1 p.m. on Wednesday) there are only 13 slots left in the 50-rider field. We've got 82 registered so far, compared to less than 60 last year at this time. Should be interesting! This is always the point at which I stop worrying about whether we'll have enough riders and start worrying about whether we'll have too many to handle. In particular, I worry about the fairly narrow country roads that we use for the road race, all of which are open to traffic. The center line rule is difficult to enforce sometimes and often it's just the luck (bad) of the draw whether a rider gets hit with a penalty or not. The one thing that gives me some confort is the presence of the motorcycle refs.
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