It was chilly Thursday morning and I pulled on the long tights before heading out in the dark to meet the early ride on the levee. At least I wasn't late this time. I guess we had about a dozen up there. Sometimes when it's dark like this we're ten miles down the road before I know who all is actually there. I think I finally turned off the headlight somewhere out past the airport. Brett was with us today, riding PowerCranks again. I don't know how he does it. On the way home I asked him about it and he explained that he really uses them because they seem to benefit his running rather than his riding. So I'm glad I don't run much. The ride was was smooth and steady, and like the day before, we had a headwind more or less all the way back.
Today I didn't make it out in the morning. I had to take my dad to a pre-op appointment for a kind of routine procedure that you really don't want to know about. We were over at Baptist for a couple of hours and they were pretty thorough with the inquisition. As we were sitting in the waiting room I glanced out the door and thought I saw someone I recognized. Sure enough, it turned out to be Lesley who later came in to run through the questions for the anaesthesiologist, but not before mentioning that she had known me since Icebreakers. Veeery long time ago, back when the guys (we were all in grammar school) all wore button-down collar pastel colored shirts with matching socks, penny loafers, and pants short enough to show the socks. At least now my pants are a little longer. A runner and swimmer, she helped me out with my brief flirtation with off-season running in the early 80s, and a few years later was working at Baptist in obstetrics when The Daughter was born.
So I finally got the Rouge-Roubaix results uploaded to the USAC Results and Rankings database - only four errors came back, which is pretty good considering the number of riders. It took about a week to get all of the final times from the Chief Ref., and then I wanted to wait a few days for the smoke to clear since there are always a few typos. This year there were only two people who found incorrect times! Of course I found numerous incorrect or missing license numbers that I had to look up one by one. Now all I have to do is update the LCCS rankings. That shouldn't be too hard, although for the 50+ masters I'll have to sort out the 55+ guys since we use 55+ for the LCCS.
Sunday is our club's annual 2-Person Time Trial over in nearby LaPlace. There's a cold front coming through Saturday night and right now it's looking like the rain will be over with but the wind will likely be epic. The course is basically straight north and south, and I think that by the time the race starts there should be a hefty northwest wind blowing, probably in the neighborhood of 20 mph. I'm kind of hoping it will be more out of the north so we'll at least have that blazing fast return trip to the finish line.
Oh yeah, I still need to set up the registration and results spreadsheet and get a printer working and charge the clock and radios and figure out how to use LAMBRA's new printing stopwatch that handles something like 2,000 splits.
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