So here I am spending the long holiday weekend in town, as usual. My life is so exciting I can hardly stand it. The highlight of the day was the Saturday Giro Ride, which was uncharacteristically sedate. The Saturday Giros have been really fast for weeks on end, and so this morning I was expecting nothing less. Also, with the La/Ms Time Trial Championship coming up I figured there would be a lot of guys out on their TT machines. I was wrong on both counts. I'd gotten a call at work yesterday from Jorge Merle who was en route to New Orleans from his home in Dallas. He was calling to check on the start time of the Giro Ride. Jorge, who used to race here back in the early-mid 80s with the Velo Sportif club, has family in town. He shows up now and then at Louisiana races and said that he's hoping to make it to the Tour de La next year. Speaking of bike racers who are still going strong, I was looking at the article on the recent Masters Track Nationals, and noticed that Bobby Phillips was 2nd in the 55-59 age group time trial. Bobby was one of the top riders at the first Tour de La in 1972!
So anyway, the Giro Ride today had some fast sections as always, but overall the pace was less than brutal. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but there were fewer TT bikes in the group than I've seen in weeks.
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