Slug - ish

Well, yesterday afternoon I headed across town for another dentist appointment, this time to have the temporary cap removed and the "real" one glued in place. It would have been better if the dentist hadn't pulled the cap off of the adjoining tooth in the process of wrenching the temporary one out, but at least I can down chew food on both sides of my mouth again. As fate would have it, though, shortly after I had gotten the cap firmly installed my stomach became kind of unhappy and stayed that way. It's still feeling kind of odd. Not much to do about it though.

So we had a nice smooth morning ride on the levee today, rolling along at 20-21 mph most of the time, at least until we picked up a couple more riders toward the end who must not have known it was Friday. Today's Tour de France stage was fairly uneventful, with all of the leaders interested mainly in saving their legs for tomorrow's time trial. It should be quite a battle. After all of the hard mountain stages that were just completed, I would have to hesitate to make any firm predictions based on the earlier TT results. It will likely all be decided by less than a minute one way or the other, making it one of the closest GC races in a long time. Somebody here at work taped yesterday's stage for me, so I'm planning on watching that tonight. I got a bunch of new blank CDs the other day here at work so I could make some backups and for some reason they keep crapping out on me half-way through recording. If I just record a little bit at a time, they seem to work fine, but when I select 250 mb or so, they keep failing. I eventually got all the critical stuff safely tucked away, but it took twice as long as it should have.

We've got the La/Ms district championship criteriums tomorrow up in Denham Springs, which is just an hour or so from here. I am definitely not "up" for this one. The Master 35+ race is early in the morning, so at least it won't be too hot for that one. Then, after noon, there's the 45+ race followed immediately by the Cat. 1,2,3 race. Which one to do? I did both a couple of years ago and let me tell you - by the third criterium there's not much "snap" left in your dehydrated legs, that's f'sure.