Back in Town

Well, I finally made it back to NOLA around 10:30 last night. The wife's luggage didn't, however. Basically, we were "travelling" for about 17 hours yesterday. It would have taken less time to drive. Northwest was pretty good about it all and found the bag in Dallas right away, so she had it back by 10:30 this morning. We also ended with a couple of discount vouchers because of the flight delay, so that's cool. I called The Daughter when we arrived last night and she was just getting ready to board their flight back to Iowa City after being delayed all day. I don't know what it is about travelling like that, but it always seems to wipe me out even though I spend most of the time sitting on my butt reading magazines. At least I had some time to come up with a simple little logo for the LAMBRA points series, aka the LCCS. I'd been meaning to get to that for months. It may not be too fancy but I think it'll do for a while.

So this morning I was finally back on the bike. The air was thick and humid and the sky was overcast but there were a few of us there and we did a typical Monday recovery ride, even though I had absolutely nothing from which to recover on this particular Monday. Kenny B sent some photos from the 2-Person Time Trial, so I got those up on the website this evening. It sounds like the club did a great job with the TT last Saturday. From what I heard it started out windy and then just got more and more windy as the morning went on. Since the Cat. 1,2s went off last, that makes the winning time of 52:23 all that much more impressive. I heard Frank was practically foaming at the mouth by the end just trying to hang onto Bain.

Otherwise, I felt really wasted all day today. I haven't really gotten much sleep time the last few days, so I guess that's the problem. Got the LCCS points updated this evening, but need to check on one person's license status before I can post them. Also, one of the juniors is listed as "suspended" but I think he just sent in a renewal and didn't get a signature from his parental unit. We've never had separate minimum field sizes for the team TTs in the past, but this year with the Cat. 3s and Master-45s in separate groups, it's getting to be a bit of a problem. We may want to lower the limit to two or three teams next year. As it stands, the Cat. 1,2s almost never meet the minimum field size of 5, which is kind of sad.