Another crap race in Webster yesterday. Correction: I raced Masters and 3/4 so it was two crap races. It's same old story, drift to the back of the pack and work much harder than I should. Blah, blah, blah.

Riddle: When is cabbage not cabbage?

Random observations: All the flooding that is taking place on the Mississippi has brought a few things to mind. At the top of the list is the newsfolk's use of the term "overtopping" when the river goes over a levee. This term was not used during the big flood of '93. When and why did this term become vogue? Why not just say the river topped the levee? The river cannot undertop a levee. Isn't overtopping a somewhat redundant term?

Why are levees not covered with some hard, impermeable surface? It seems that it would prevent a weakening of levees. And, if the water would 'overtop' the levee then the usual erosion and destruction of the levee would not take place. Budget reasons are probably the answer to my question.

Answer to riddle: When it is a carrot.

Put a load of cabbage in a trailer a few hundred feet ahead of Giuseppe it becomes a carrot for him to chase. Saturday's ride proved this to be true.