So, this evening I spent about two hours with 19 other people watching snipets of local TV news and weather....where we all commented on what we saw, wrote out our impressions, and had some great cookies and finger sandwiches!! I was part of a "focus group" arranged by the advertising company that a friend of mine runs (see the baseball game entry from last week). It was an easy fifty bucks for my opinion on the state of the local news programming in Shreveport-Bossier City. I was brutally honest with my assessments and I enjoyed the cookies very much, thank you.
This morning I was finally able to force myself out of bed to do the 5:50 morning bike ride. There were seven of us out there and the wind. was. quite. noticeable. But we pushed thru it and actually sweated out there...well, it was warm enough...'bout time. There's supposed to be some storms coming thru tonight and you can hear the wind moving the tops of the trees around. So we were getting the beginnings of that during the ride. Maybe I can ride tomorrow morning if it's not raining and wet outside.
Last night we had the first of the local time trial series to get 2009 off the ground. There were 18 folks who came out to ride the "new" course...it's new because the original course currently has too much traffic (re: gas rig trucks and frak trucks) and recent road repairs have actually made the road worse. So, for safety's sake, we went back to a course we used briefly in 2005 for the same reasons. The Wife made it out there to ride and though she finished 17th her average speed of over 21 mph was pretty good. She'll just get better.
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