There were 20 or do riders up on the levee this morning for the 7:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Day levee ride, and there would have been a few more were it not for the popular Turkey Day Race. This run is now in its 98th year, but it's not the longest-running race in the City. The New Orleans Track Club's Jackson Day race is actually older. It is something of a tradition to have a special training ride on holidays. I can remember back when we used to try to ride the same number of miles as the year on New Year's Day back in the 70s and 80s. Needless to say, that little tradition was doomed to fizzle out pretty quickly. Maybe we should start it up again now that we'd only have to ride 6 miles!
The weather has been warmer around here lately, and although I started off in arm-warmers and two jerseys, by the time I got home from this easy 44 mile ride everything that could be unzipped was unzipped. It was a really nice day in the City that Care Forgot, and the streets were unusually quiet, even for a post-Katrina day. I think that most of the contractors took the day off, leaving the city to the relatively small number of actual residents.
It was good to see some of the local riders who have been rather scarce since the hurricane because of work or displacement or whatever, and the group rolled along in mostly a double paceline at a moderate 20-23 mph the whole way. I'm thinking I'll do the Giro on Saturday and then the Northshore ride on Sunday like last week. It's looking like the temperatures will stay quite warm until early next week. The high temps Sunday and Monday will be around 80F. However there's a significant chance of rain Saturday, so we'll have to see how that works out.
We ended up going over to my mother's place in the early afternoon for an early Thanksgiving dinner. Although there were just the three of us, The Wife brought a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie, and a lemon merangue pie, along with potato salad. Go figure.
Guess what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow.
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