We had a bunch of people up on the levee this morning for the Friday ride. Go figure. The pace was fairly easy and smooth, as it should be on a Friday. At least I felt relatively normal today.
So this weekend there's a bizarre event up in Baton Rouge. A 4-man time trial in the morning, followed by a 2-man time trial in the afternoon, and then an individual time trial on Sunday. It's pretty hard to find riders who can generate much enthusiasm about this. Most of our masters riders are tied up in one way or another this weekend, so we were never able to put together even a single 4-man time trial team. The Cat. 4s had similar problems, but at least they had a team lined up for the 4-man. Well, that is until Stephen sent out a tm early in the afternoon saying he wasn't going to be able to make it. What followed were hours of beating the bushes trying to find a single Cat. 4 rider to fill the gap. Finally, Pat arm-twisted Steve into riding, but it wasn't until around 8:30 pm. I still haven't decided if I'll go up in the morning just to watch, or wait until later and just go up for the 2-man TT at 3 pm. These team time trials can be fun, but it always seems like a roll of the dice whether or not you end up on a team that can actually do something -- or end up with a team at all.
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