Tired Tuesday

It might have been the tragedy at Virginia Tech. It might have been the big check I had to write to the IRS. Maybe I'm fighting off a little bug. Surely it can't be the lingering soreness from last Sunday's time trial. Most likely it was because I was up so late last night. Some time after 1 am I was finally ready to hit the sack when an email arrived from The Daughter asking me to look over a Psychology paper she was writing. By the time I got done with that it was 2:00, so apparently when the alarm went off at 5:45 I hit the infinite snooze button. I say "apparently" because all I know is that when I woke up it was already after 6:00 and there was no chance I was going to make the morning levee group. It was just as well, I think, because I was feeling pretty tired and unmotivated. So I went out a good fifteen minutes late and cruised down the levee at a decidedly leisurely pace out to Kenner until I saw the group on its way back. There was a good-sized group, so I turned around ahead of them and slipped into the paceline. For some reason, though, I never felt quite "right" today. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow. Anyway, I guess my fitness forecast for this weekend's Mississippi Gran Prix stage race is looking kind of bleak right now.

So while I was feeling tired and sluggish at work, despite large dosages of caffeine, I thought I'd check out the Tour de Georgia. They are using the same live coverage service that the Tour of California used. The website looks great. If only it worked! The video and audio didn't even start until the race was within the last 60km or so, and by the time it did, it was really sketchy. So here I am trying to watch this "live" coverage (via a really, really high-speed connection, I might add) and I realize that the live audio commentary doesn't match up with the video feed. The video was at least ten minutes behind "live." At least. I was actually much less frustrating to just read the text updates on the VeloNews site.