I rode out to the Lakefront early this morning to meet the Sunday Giro Ride. I was wearing an old NOBC jersey. You know, the yellow and black one from when we were sponsord by GNO Cyclery. It wasn't that I was being particularly nostalgic. It seems we've been running a little behind in the laundry department. Anyway, even though the sun hadn't come up yet, I could already tell that the weather would be nice. I could still feel Saturday's race in my legs, so I wasn't planning on going too hard today. When I met up with the group on Lakeshore, I was surprised how small it was, but despite the low turnout, the ride out to the turnaround was pretty fast. At least it seemed so to me. In contrast, though, the return trip was mostly quite slow and I got the feeling that everybody was content to enjoy the nice weather. As we came over the top of the Casino bridge, I commented that it was probably the slowest I'd ever gone over it, and how nice it was to actually look at the scenery for a change.
Robin and I then split off to scout out the Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena where we are hoping to have the Rocktoberfest races in a couple of weeks. It looks to me like it will work out pretty well. The 500 or so FEMA trailers and the entire temporary Southern University temporary building complex are both located so that we won't really interfere with traffic. I think it will be a fun criterium course. Hopefully we won't run into any of those last-minute problems that always seem to crop up with a new course.
It seemed particularly quiet in town today for some reason. I rode over to the riverbend area for a long-overdue haircut (the only kind I ever get) and there was practically no wait. By mid-afternoon I was half-asleep on the couch, not even thinking about all of the more productive things I should have been doing. It's just as well. It is looking like it will be a very busy work week judging by the ten work-related emails I've gotten already tonight.
Definitely an easy ride tomorrow morning!
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