I'm glad to report that we are still leaving for Tremblant with our grandchildren on the 10th of August!! We have a solution to our travel and accommodation problems, which I'll tell you more about later.
Now the challenge for me is to put aside my other worries and focus on the final preparations. I suppose it's good news that because of wait times for roof trusses, they won't be starting on the garage until we get back anyway. It's still gonna mean that I'm gonna have to give up a bit of control to the insurance company, and while they surely have a slightly different agenda than I do, I also have to admit that other than taking too long for everything, they haven't screwed me over yet.
Besides I got a whole neighbourhood of people who do have the same agenda as me, and giving up some control to them is at least a little bit easier.
And as to final preparations, the biggest training consideration is one more long ride, hopefully on Thursday. Today was my last long run/walk effort which went relatively well, except for the man with the dog! Oh how brave people are when they have a weapon. He called me a retard and suggested than I wasn't smart enough to remember the 6 digits of his license plate! Funny thing is....his plate had 7 digits and I had no problem remembering them all. Retard! He will be getting a call from my friends at the neighbourhood OPP station.
Tomorrow I will start making my lists beginning with one specifically for the stuff I need to do before we leave town. Then of course there's the one for all the stuff we need to pack for the vacation aspect of our trip, as well as the Ironman specific list. I think just the list making exercise itself will help me get focused. I hope!
run/walk 25 kms, 6:30/km
"The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists."---H Allen Smith
"We like lists because we don't want to die."---Umberto Eco
Love
Peter
Now the challenge for me is to put aside my other worries and focus on the final preparations. I suppose it's good news that because of wait times for roof trusses, they won't be starting on the garage until we get back anyway. It's still gonna mean that I'm gonna have to give up a bit of control to the insurance company, and while they surely have a slightly different agenda than I do, I also have to admit that other than taking too long for everything, they haven't screwed me over yet.
Besides I got a whole neighbourhood of people who do have the same agenda as me, and giving up some control to them is at least a little bit easier.
And as to final preparations, the biggest training consideration is one more long ride, hopefully on Thursday. Today was my last long run/walk effort which went relatively well, except for the man with the dog! Oh how brave people are when they have a weapon. He called me a retard and suggested than I wasn't smart enough to remember the 6 digits of his license plate! Funny thing is....his plate had 7 digits and I had no problem remembering them all. Retard! He will be getting a call from my friends at the neighbourhood OPP station.
Tomorrow I will start making my lists beginning with one specifically for the stuff I need to do before we leave town. Then of course there's the one for all the stuff we need to pack for the vacation aspect of our trip, as well as the Ironman specific list. I think just the list making exercise itself will help me get focused. I hope!
run/walk 25 kms, 6:30/km
"The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists."---H Allen Smith
"We like lists because we don't want to die."---Umberto Eco
Love
Peter
Great idea with the different lists, etc - I love making lists! They help me sort out everything I have to do, and the priority of those things, so I can stop worrying about that and just tackle things one at a time. Plus, it feels good to cross things off a list!
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for you for the Ironman trip coming soon, and I have complete faith that the insurance stuff will continue to work out really well. :)
Love,
Michael