Welcome home, Ace!
Ace is back from Switzerland, where he made our country proud by coming in 40th in the world (in his age group) in the Olympic-distance triathlon championship there, with a gimpy arm from a mountain bike crash, and immediately after tracing the Alpine sections of the Tour de France route, and wearing next to nothing.
Maybe I can persuade him to write a race report of some kind. I had intended to have a greater focus on triathlon in this blog, but have been rather unmotivated in training, and I guess my lack of enthusiasm translates to the written word.
Does anybody know anybody of influence at United Airlines? Ace got in superlate (2 hrs delayed) Sunday night, and spent the next 2 hours moping around the baggage claim area, wondering where his bike box was. It never showed. He's spent the last two days on the phone and making return trips to the airport (based on promises his bike was due to arrive), only to come up empty handed. He saw the bike on his JFK stopover, so presumably it's in the country. But he's had people tell him everything: it was on his original flight, it was scanned in New York, it was scanned in SFO, it was 
not scanned in New York, it was not scanned in SFO, it would be arriving the next day at 10:00 a.m., it would be arriving the next day at 10:00 p.m., they had no record of it anywhere.
How can this happen? Not just the failure to deliver the bag, and not just the lack of knowledge, but why isn't there any consistency in the answers? Is this something for Donald Rumsfeld to take up? I have also heard suggestions that thefts of checked bags are on the rise - it's no wonder everbody wants to bring their huuuge wheelie bags as carry ons. (I remember when carry ons were a handbag and a suit coat!) What are our next steps?
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