Weatherman Field Day

The local weather forecasters are having a real field day right now. They've been hungry for something to get excited about for months and so they've latched onto this Tropical Storm story. You would think it was the storm of the century. In fact, if it goes as predicted, we probably won't have much of a problem at all, but it's not looking good for Saturday's big track meet in Baton Rouge. I'm expecting to see a cancellation notice on that any time now! Anyway, we are currently under a Tropical Storm warning.

Yesterday's long ride really felt long to me! The pace was pretty steady and not too fast, but I was feeling kind of tired and run-down. I went ahead and rode this morning, and the group did a nice easy recovery type ride which was just perfect, considering. My legs have felt rather sluggish and stiff since Tuesday so a little rest is probably called for. Ben called a little while ago, gathering advice as to whether to reschedule the Saturday night track meet because of the weather. The problem with these Tropical Storms and Hurricaines is always that you have to make a decision a couple of days out, but you don't really know where the blasted thing is really going to go until later. We've actually had voluntary evacuations of the City of New Orleans a couple of times in recent years for hurricaines that didn't end up having much of an impact on the city. So my guess is that he'll postpone it, since at this point it's for sure nobody from the East is coming anyway.

I'm finally just about finished with the Tour de La Race Bible, and I sent it out to some of the club folks for a little review, since there's always something that turns out to be wrong in there. I'm still trying to track down a bunch of one-day license forms for the Cat. 5 race. One thing we really need are some good GMRS radios. That's what LAMBRA ought to be buying. I'll have to talk with the appropriate folks about that.

It seems like NOBODY will call me back today. I've been trying to get a few simple numbers on endowment awards since yesterday, and the only people who have replied to my requests are the ones who were passing the buck. Same problem with the one-day licenses. I really think that the folks at the USCF offfice in Colorado Springs take off around noon on Fridays and go out for a ride. Not that I blame them, you understand. There are some extremely nice places to ride around "the Springs."

I don't really know what I'm doing tomorrow. I think some folks are going up to ride the Tour course again, but if the weather is sketchy, I'll probably just opt for the good 'ol Giro ride unless someone talks me into going across the lake.