So it's and individual time trial on dry roads, I'm riding my road bike, and still I find a way to fall off. Worst of all, a photographer's there to capture it in embarrassing detail. That's how my weekend in Elk Grove began, and now it's being capped off by a canceled flight at O'Hare. Man. It wasn't all bad, though. Losing a bunch of time in the TT meant I was basically a non-factor in the race, but Fred still had a pretty good weekend. He got third in the final crit and fifth overall, which still means some decent prize money for us. Kelly Benefits absolutely cleaned up, though. Congratulations to them.

The crash captured above resulted from me forgetting that I'm not a time-trialist. I thought I might have been putting in a decent time, so I tried keeping my speed up by pedaling through the last corner. But I clipped my inside pedal on the pavement, adopted a horrible facial expression, then got a close-up look at the curb. Luckily I ended up with just some minor road rash. And a good picture. Please stop laughing.

So now I'm in O'Hare trying to get back to Atlanta. It's been a long day already, and it could get longer. There were some nasty thunderstorms this morning and there was hardly an on-time flight to be seen on the departures screen. The customer service line here at United is unbelievable. I had the good fortune of being on one of the first canceled flights, so I managed to beat most of the crowd and get booked on a flight late tonight with a couple earlier standby options. From the looks of things, a lot of people weren't so lucky.

Adrienne's been in Atlanta all weekend getting our new life setup. We found an apartment in Midtown, which seems like a pretty good place to be. But while I was off racing my bike and having fun (see above), she was stuck doing all the moving. Not fair. I'm looking forward to getting back and starting to figure out the city we'll be calling home for the next few years. The bike riding options look discouragingly limited, but hopefully I'm at least partially mistaken. I'll keep some updates coming.