"Because I Had To!"

The only reason I did my swim today!
As soon as I got in the pool I was both grateful and regretful that I had promised to swim 4 kms. I couldn't understand why my arms just didn't have any zip and then I suddenly realized my mistake. I did my pushups and chinups to exhaustion last evening not once considering how that was gonna make me feel in the pool today. What a mistake!
I was literally forced to do the distance in fits and starts, but I got it in.

One good thing at the pool today though. I ran into my old friend Rob the Dentist and I got some very good "free" advice about my dental care. More useful stuff than I have gotten from my own dentist, or the dental experts at the cancer clinic.

Tomorrow I will ride and try again to get my 90 km's in. I repaired my flat today and that was a learning experience. It took me about a half hour because I struggled to get the tire off and on the rim. I need to practice just in case it happens on race day. I should be able to do it in five minutes or less.

And that's it for today. I'm too lazy to think. But see below the wisdom of others.

I wish to dedicate day 107 to Rob the dentist, because he cared enough to try to help me.

so on being grateful...

“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."---David Gerrold

“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared."---Dennis Prager

and on being regretful...

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."---Sydney J. Harris

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."---Jim Rohn

and on making mistakes...

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."--- Confucius."

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."---Cullen Hightower

love
peter