It seems as if the sun comes up earlier each morning lately, and while there's still a hint of coolness to the
pre-dawn air, it doesn't linger for long. Best of all, though, is the welcome simplicity of going out in shorts and jersey without even checking the thermometer. It's nearly summer now, for all practical purposes, and from now until some time near the end of August it will just get warmer and warmer. Another thing that happens this time of year is that the number of people on the group rides starts to climb. Indeed, the morning levee rides have been well-attended this week.
The Thursday early ride may have started out in a nice civilized way, but it didn't last very long. There weren't any actual attacks or anything. Instead the speed just kept notching up and up until I was really starting to struggle with it. I'd started the ride with a slightly unhappy stomach, the outcome perhaps of the raw oysters, or the subsequent oyster loaf, I'd had on Magazine Street the night before. Then again, maybe it was just the
Guiness Stout. Who knows? Anyway, I tried to ignore it and kept taking pulls. It helped, of course, that the pace slacked off
noticeably after Tim and Woody turned back. Yet by the time we got to the turnaround out at
Ormond I was more than ready to ease up. Apparently not everyone else was, though, so for me, easing up meant sitting in near the back and trying not to dwell on the discomfort. Fortunately all was better, more or less, by the time I was back home.
Back at work I found an email from Julie at City Park in my in-box. Finally. So the course at the park is available for the Tour
de La. That's good. The fee to use the course, well, not so good. In fact, pretty close to the figure for the total event
prizelist. The alternatives are likely less expensive, but also far less convenient and far
less visible. We will likely go with it, but it still feels like I'm getting, well ... let's just say it's not an effective way to generate good will with the local bike race promoters.
It seems as if the sun comes up earlier each morning lately, and while there's still a hint of coolness to the pre-dawn air, it doesn't linger for long. Best of all, though, is the welcome simplicity of going out in shorts and jersey without even checking the thermometer. It's nearly summer now, for all practical purposes, and from now until some time near the end of August it will just get warmer and warmer. Another thing that happens this time of year is that the number of people on the group rides starts to climb. Indeed, the morning levee rides have been well-attended this week. 
Back at work I found an email from Julie at City Park in my in-box. Finally. So the course at the park is available for the Tour de La. That's good. The fee to use the course, well, not so good. In fact, pretty close to the figure for the total event prizelist. The alternatives are likely less expensive, but also far less convenient and far less visible. We will likely go with it, but it still feels like I'm getting, well ... let's just say it's not an effective way to generate good will with the local bike race promoters.
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