Cool Friday Riding

A little cool front came through last night and returned the temperatures to more or less seasonal normal, so it was comfortably in the upper 50s this morning for the easy Friday ride. I had opened a number of windows yesterday evening and so the house was a lot more comfortable than it had been when we got home yesterday after work. The difference in humidity was really noticible, and as they often say around here, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." Actually, they more often say "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity," but that's a rant for another day.

On the way out to the levee, as I went past the old streetcar barn, I noticed that it was full of the "red" Canal St./ Riverfront streetcars -- the ones that were all flooded out due to Katrina. I'm guessing that they are there to be repaired, or perhaps they already are, so maybe one day we will finally get our "real" streetcars back on Carrollton and St. Charles Ave. and downtown can have their DisneyWorld versions back.

So anyway, as usual Joe and I were the only ones up on the levee when we started out today at a blazing 16 mph pace, but eventually we picked up a few more riders (including Ben!!). It was fairly windy, and nobody was interested in going fast anyway, least of all me, so we had a nice easy ride that stayed around 19-20 mph for the most part. The temperature never really warmed up during the ride today.

So yesterday I started getting the wierd questions that I always get before a team time trial. Do you have to start with three riders for a 3-man time trial? How many riders have to finish in order to count? If one rider is a Cat. 2 and another is a Cat. 4 and the third is a 50 year old female with a Swiss license who had a sex-change operation and is implicated in the Operation Puerto affair, does the Cat. 2 rider still get LCCS points? You know, the usual stuff.