Tuesday morning (yesterday), I got up early to do the 5:50 am ride in Shrevport. As I've mentioned before, I ride over the Red River on the Texas Street Bridge to meet up with the group who have come up from South Shreveport....anyway, I left the house barely on time (around 5:45 am) and get about 1/2 mile from the house to where a second set of railroad tracks are located. There's a train on the tracks just sitting there, not moving. I've been held up before by trains on these rides but they usually get out of the way because they're usually moving at the time. But not this one. I decided to do some circles in the street to kill some time...then the train starts to move. About twenty cars later, it stops again, still blocking the street. I kept doing laps in the street and finally I decided it wasn't moving again any time soon and I ride back to the house. I got in a total of 1.4 miles in 10 minutes! I can run 1.4 miles faster than that! I showered and got ready for the day. I thought about doing a run instead but....naawww!! Ain't happenin'.
The Tuesday night ride was a small affair. I think a lot of folks thought rain was coming, plus several were going to do the Firecracker 5K run in the morning so they didn't need to wear themselves out doing a leg-ripping ride at Tuesday Night Worlds. There were probably ten of us and my legs felt kinda numb, not really strong at all. But it turned into another fast night. I spent half my time in the back but with only ten guys, there's not much to draft off of. I did take a number of pulls, even sat on the only Team Psycho fella who showed up when he tried to take off on a flyer. Even made a monster chase-bridge-thing after a 2-man break that Don was able to finish off while we were on Linwood. I was a little tired afterward but it was all good for me....I guess.
Today is Independence Day. The wife and I went out to watch the Firecracker 5K run...she was nursing a sore knee and I hadn't run enough, which is why we were watching and not doing. Three thousand folks were out there in muggy conditions but at least it didn't rain. The rest of the day was spent working on a mock-up of the Blackwell catalog I'm trying to get done with and replacing three ink cartridges in the printer since I used the old ones up by printing out that mock-up.
It's also three days until the Prologue Time Trial that I've put together with the help of some great people. I've got a few more things to do but it'll be a busy three days.
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