No, not that Tour. The Tour de Louisiane. Things went fairly well today at the TDL from an organizational perspective, and I think most of the riders really liked the new road course. We had around 190 riders, which is a very good turnout for our race. For some reason the Cat. 5 field didn't fill up as usual, and yet we had an unusually large number of Women and Juniors. Go figure. The TT in Abita Springs held no big surprises today, and as usual I did the starting while Brian did the holding. We did all of the results sitting in the little gazebo in Abita Springs, and I printed the results out in the car on the way to the Road Race. Luckily there were some clouds that came through during the road race so it wasn't as hot as it might have been, although the wind kicked up pretty strongly. My place-picking was definitely lacking today, and it was only Shane's excellent work with the finish line camera that saved the day. Realdo won the Cat. 1,2,3 finish which ultimately came down to a field sprint. There had been a good break during the race, but the Memphis guys had only one rider in a 6-man break and decided it was too risky so they chased it down. The masters race didn't look to be as animated, and it too finished in a field sprint. The Cat. 4s and Cat 5s dropped a lot of riders and were scattered all over the course while many of the women and juniors stayed together until the finish. It was great that we had a lot of the club members show up to help with the race this year. It really made a difference. As usual, Robin handled the course setup, had water, soft drinks, and even watermelon available for the riders, along with unlimited neutral water handups, free energy gel packs, etc., etc.
After the races we headed over to Keith's house in Covington to work on the results and eat pizza and were able to post them at the hotel a bit after 9 p.m., which is not too bad. Tomorrow we'll do the criteriums in Covington (backwards!). Should be interesting. I'm a little tired, but still have a bit to do tonight before I hit the sack.
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