It was a nice easy ride this morning with a little group of four or five. The weather was great, there was hardly any wind, and all was well with the world. Things kind of deteriorated after that. After a truly relaxing commute to the office, interrupted only by a speeding police car that buzzed me on the Broad Street overpass, I settled in with a cup of coffee with plans to wrap up a couple of things and then spend the afternoon preparing things for our upcoming office move. Instead, a steady stream of emails kept me jumping most of the day. Some of them involved our postponed, rescheduled, and relocated time trial championships. Gary got the OK for the course up on the Natchez Trace Parkway between Natchez and Jackson, and I ended up spending a lot of time revising the event announcement, making maps, re-opening online registration, and working with USAC on revising the event permit. I was hoping I'd be able to get an official OK before the end of the day, but it didn't happen. I'll probably send out an announcement tomorrow anyway since time is so short. In the meantime I'll need to get the race numbers from Todd, track down the stand for the LAMBRA race clock, which I think is at Bicycle World, put together a results spreadsheet, etc. With the Rocktoberfest criterium scheduled for 12th and the Time Trial for the 26th, it'll make for a long road season this year. There won't be much time to relax, though, because I'll have to work up the final LCCS results and start making preparations for the annual LAMBRA business meeting, and the first week in November I'll be in DC for a conference and then in Colorado Springs for the annual Local Associations conference.

Speaking of tomorrow, the Sister-in-law is scheduled to move into her remodeled home and out of her FEMA trailer tomorrow, which means that there will be movers at our place around 8:30 am. It's rather frightening to imagine what may be underneath all of those boxes that have been stored in our basement since Hurricane Katrina three years ago. I'm planning on doing the Giro Ride anyway, and may be swinging by the Tulane homecoming game tailgate party at City Park on the way back. Then at some point this weekend I need to break out the LAMBRA camera and see what I need in order to get the video to go straight to my laptop. Anyway, I'm tired and rampling, so I think I'll go to sleep now.....