The Week Begins

I got myself up out of bed to see what the weather was like and I was surprised at how dry the streets were. We had heard the thunder and saw lightning around 2am, and Sophie The Dog had jumped up on the bed because she isn't that keen on such happenings. But there was definitely evidence of a past rain. I put my bike gear on and headed out the door for the Monday morning 5:50 ride with the temps hovering around 45 degrees and a nice 10 mph wind out of the northwest. I met up with Mike, Roland, Jeff, and his wife Lisa and we altered the route slightly where we went further down the parkway with the tailwind so we would only do a short ride into the wind from Hamel's Park to Preston Drive. Even then the pace was not as fast as it should have been but I wasn't too bothered by it. I probably pulled the fastest out there and that was only at 22-23 mph. I think we sat around 20 mph when everyone else took their turn at the front. That was fine since I had done a 52-mile ride on Sunday.

I spent most of this afternoon dealing with Centenary cycling club stuff. The proof for the team kit came in from Pactimo and, even though it looked really good, there were a few changes and corrections that had to be made. Most of them were simply oversights on the part of the Pactimo graphics department where they didn't follow my instructions exactly. No problem as long as we get the uniforms by the first of April. I also had to deal with the procedures for registering club members for the national college triathlon championships which included getting an account password and the seeding process. Also, I needed to make sure of who in the club is actually serious about doing this so I can reserve the spots. I have one young lady who is definitely signing up and I may have a guy who could be interested (but he doesn't get his bike from home until March). Then I dealt with our new membership in USACycling and spoke to Daniel, the national manager of college and high school cycling for USAC. He sent me some great material and advice on growing the club and getting the college full-on behind the group. It made me a little more excited about what could be done.

As I said, I did a 52 mile ride with a small group of seven other riders into the north stretches above Shreveport. The pace was fairly easy although we did a few harder efforts on occasion and I mostly wanted to get some miles and loosen my legs a bit. Jonnene stayed home due to her lingering cold and did about an hour on her trainer. I think she'd doing much better today and maybe she'll be mostly over it by the weekend.