Summer Weekend in December

It is late Sunday night and a cool front is slowly approaching. Behind it comes cooler weather that I'm not really sure I want. It felt like summer this weekend in New Orleans, and between the warm weather and my rest day on Friday, my legs felt pretty good for Saturday's Giro ride. The temperature had warmed up so quickly that the overpasses were all damp with condensation, and most of the group stopped to walk across the slippery steel grating on the top of the Seabrook bridge near the start of the Giro ride. There was a little group that split off the front at that point, and they didn't wait for the ride to regroup. Eventually, though, someone had a flat and things were able to come back together. It was a fairly fast Giro ride for this time of year. I felt good during the ride, but then had to battle a headwind all the way home.

The annual LAMBRA meeting was on Sunday in Baton Rouge, and since I was the one who would be representing the NOBC I had to skip the Northshore ride and instead went out for a long solo ride on the levee. The meeting went fairly well and we at least got a start on the 2006 race calendar. We also decided to add a Cat.3 division to the LCCS points series, even when the 3s are combined with the 1s and 2s. Should be interesting. By the time the meeting was over I was not feeling too good. I'm really hoping I'm not coming down with a cold or something. The Wife came up to B.R. with me and spent about three hours at the local shopping mall, so we ended up taking home an artificial christmas tree to replace the one that was ruined in the flood. The Daughter and I always have allergy-like problems when there's a real tree in the house for very long. Tomorrow will be a long day at work and I'm already pretty tired, so I'm off to bed now . . .