Blasts from the Past

Late last night I got an email from Tim Fitzgerald, and attached to it was a black and white photo from the 1984 Race Across Louisiana.  I have to admit it was a little hard to admit how long ago that was.  Anyway, I figured I'd put it up on the NOBC History page at some point and went to sleep.

It was relatively cool this morning as I rode out to meet the 6:15 am ride on the levee.  It was another reminder that summer was coming to an end and hurricane season was reaching its peak.  As the mornings get darker, riders start showing up later and later, so I wasn't surprised to find just a couple of riders there when I arrived, nor was I surprised when a quite a few others suddenly materialized within just a couple of minutes. It was a pretty normal Wednesday ride with everyone taking long steady pulls, all within a narrow range of a couple mph of 20.  The one non-normal thing was the presence of Adam Watts (of Bicycle World fame) who I probably hadn't seen on the ride in six months. As remarkable as his presence was, the fact that he had promoted one of the Race Across Louisiana races around the time the photo I'd received seven hours before had been taken was even more remarkable.  Anyway, I'd been planning on riding out to the lakefront after work for the training race, but by the time I got home it was nearly 6 pm already, so I opened a bottle of Malbec instead ..... using a Campagnolo corkscrew, of course.