Uncomfortable Weather

Yesterday a strong line of thunderstorms pushed through right as I was in the middle of a Safety and Risk Summit meeting at Tulane.  I suppose I should have been comforted to know that all of the university's safety officers were "sheltered in place" with me.  The exceptionally strong  winds caused a lot of damage and spawned at least two small tornados, taking down two big trees in my neighborhood and causing some significant, albeit short-lived, street flooding. I had gotten in a nice Wednesday morning training ride, ending with Brian who for the final couple of miles was clearly guilty of violating the Wednesday Protocol by pushing the pace up a few miles per hour.  After the meeting it looked like the rain was ending, so I got on the bike and headed to the office at University Square, standing  up the whole time to keep the seat of my pants dry, only to have it start raining harder a few minutes later and leaving me with wet pants for the next couple of hours.

I have been very busy at work this week and am falling behind a bit on LAMBRA stuff, including our 2-Person Time Trial that our club is putting on this weekend. I was up until midnight working on a budget, so it was hard to drag myself out of bed this morning, especially once I looked outside to see an overcast sky and trees rustling in the wind.  What I didn't realize was that there was a light mist falling over much of the city, which probably explained why there were only a couple of people who showed up this morning. Daniel, Tom, Mark G., and I ended up doing a shorter ride than usual for a Thursday, and by the time we were on the way back there was a steady stream of water droplets falling from the front of my helmet.  Combined with the cooler temperatures and relatively easy pace, it made for a rather uncomfortable ride, and I was more than happy to spend the "extra" half hour I had from the early start and shorter ride at Zotz sipping a cup of hot coffee.

We've got at least three race announcements in the works right now, plus some final negotiations on a joint-BAR race with Texas.  I've been trying to respond to questions as best I can, but time has been short and work is taking priority because of a Friday proposal deadline.  I'm sitting here waiting for a response to my most recent edits and hoping this whole thing doesn't come down to ten minutes before the Friday afternoon submittal deadline.  Can't say I'm particularly optimistic about that, however.