Tame for a Tuesday

This morning's group ride was pretty tame, at least for a Tuesday. With a number of the usual perpetrators of pain notably absent, and sufficient humidity to grow mushrooms on your shoes, the ride was quite civilized today. There was even a long stretch of smooth double paceline on the way back. With the local riders getting geared up for this weekend's stage race, one of the few races we have that's so close to home, I guess a lot of people are easing off a notch already in preparation. Personally, I guess Tuesday is usually the last day I'll do a really hard ride if I have a big race coming up on the weekend. I've still got a lot of stuff to do before the race -- definitely more than if I was going to be riding it. I finally put the Race Bible up on the website and made a little to-do list of things I need to get or check -- things like the results spreadsheet, batteries of various sorts, printer ink cartridges, etc. Plus, I still need to track down Robin and hope that he can print the paper copies of the Race Bible as usual. It will all be complicated by other commitments both tonight and tomorrow night.

The Daughter is driving down from Iowa City with her roomate to attend some sort of shower or something and won't be arriving until maybe 3 am Friday morning. Since they'll be leaving Sunday morning I probably won't see much of her at all. She called earlier today to say she had gotten the oil changed and that the transmission fluid and coolant were both low and there was a vacuum leak somewhere. I told her to check fluids along the way and not to sweat the vacuum leak, since it's apparently been going on for some time now anyway.

So I got a text message yesterday evening from Kenny B. saying "I got 7th!" He's up at the Tour of Ohio with the Herring Guys, and as you can see from the photo, he's making a spectacle of himself as usual! When I saw the photo, the first thing I thought was "why would they bring latex gloves to a bike race?" Anyway, it turned out he wasn't 7th after all, but was actually 12th, which isn't too shoddy anyway for a technical criterium with 127 riders and a number of pro teams in attendance.