Depression

Well, our little tropical depression has already achieved Tropical Storm status, and has thereby had an official name bestowed upon it.  I didn't go out to ride in the rain this morning, although in retrospect it might have been the best chance I'd have had for the next few days.  Tropical Storm Lee is just sitting there churning around in the Gulf, pulling moisture up its east side, which happens to be where we are.  The forecast is for rain, rain and more rain, and if we happen to get stuck under one of those trains of rainstorms it's all quite likely to overwhelm the pumping system and start filling up this big bowl we call New Orleans. Hopefully the wind won't be too big of an issue once it finally gets close enough for that to matter, which may not be until Sunday.  In the meantime, it's looking like it will be a wet and depressing weekend.  I'm already seriously considering breaking out the rain bike tomorrow morning if conditions don't look too bad. Meanwhile, here at work, everything has gone quiet this afternoon, which means that a lot of people have already skipped out ahead of the upcoming long weekend.  We have the Tulane Activities Expo this afternoon, so I'll be over there from about 4:00 - 6:00 trying to lure unsuspecting students in to bike racing.  Later tonight I guess I'll have to venture down into the basement and make sure anything that can't swim is at least off the floor.

So I once again signed up for Six Gap yesterday.  It should at provide a late-season goal to keep me off the couch too much.  Ahead of that, there's the LAMBRA road championships in a week, followed by the Pensacola stage race that I'm hoping to make, and later in October we're hoping to have some track racing.  This whole season has been kind of depressing for me so far.  Having missed so many races, I don't feel like I ever really got into shape.  That kind of makes me a bit apprehensive about the races and especially Six Gap, but I guess getting dropped at a race is still better than sitting on the couch watching reruns on television.