Summerrrrrrry

For once I didn't wake up late and actually arrived at the start of the Thursday levee ride a few minutes early. The air was thick, warm and humid, and with a high expected today in the upper 80s, it's definitely starting to feel like summer around here. I had planned to do a fairly hard workout this morning, but was seduced by the back of the pack where Donald was short-circuiting the rotation. Early on, I was back there when the pace ramped up into the upper 20s, and I just never got motivated enough to make the effort to get out into the wind and move up ahead of Donald in order to get back into the rotation. It pretty much stayed very fast all the way out, so it wasn't like I was soft-pedaling or anything. I don't think they missed me anyway. The ride back featured a lot more headwind, so I did a lot of work at the front, finally arriving back home feeling like I had gotten my money's worth.

I posted the results from the Mississippi Gran Prix stage race yesterday and so far there haven't been any serious complaints. I'll probably work out the LCCS rankings tomorrow. Unfortunately, it looks like it will be three weeks before the next good race, the Rocky Mount omnium up around Shreveport. This race is put together with a lot of help from Russ Walker. He's the guy with "Big Daddy" printed on the back of his shorts who kicked our butts last weekend, winning the RR and Crit and finishing only a couple of seconds out of first in the TT. His e-mail ID starts with "udropped." The Tour de Louisiane is scheduled for July 1 this year and I think the only really "iffy" thing that's still not nailed down is the parking for the Road Race since we're using a new course this year. Wherever we can get enough parking will probably be where the start/finish is, so it's kind of important. Keith went out there to scout things out last week.

The LAMBRA website should be moving from one server to another in the next day or so. It should be completely transparent to everyone except me. Once the DNS changes take effect I'll need to work on the home page a bit to add the advertisements that will be helping to pay for the web hosting costs.

Anyway, I should get back to work now. Lots to paperwork do right now. Lobbying reports are due, need to revise my position description, we're supposed to do a complete new physical inventory, etc., etc. Doesn't that sound like fun?

Oh yeah, I think Gina V is supposed to swing through the Crescent City on Thursday en route to Charlotte or Atlanta or something. I think she'll be spending the night at the house, so hopefully she'll have time to go out for a ride in the morning to catch me up with all of the women's NRC race series scuttlebut.