"A Good Day"

And a fun one.

It started out at the cancer clinic where Dr Yoo told me I remain in good health. He also confirmed that I would definetely be able to participate in the saliva study after my Ironman. He actually credited our previous discussions as being his motivator to get going with this, and called me his "sentinel" patient, whatever that means?

Roo and I then hung around to participate in a little project that "Ben" the medical student was undertaking to study the effects of radiation in neck cancers. When he couldn't get his machine to work and I asked about getting a technician he said they were all in Germany. I jokingly said, "well there goes your study", and he responded "that would be funny if it wasn't true". Poor guy!

When I got home I headed out for my short bike and run and that's when the fun part of the day began. I was just 5 minutes from home when I heard a siren behind me. I looked around and made sure I was close to the side of the road to let what turned out to be a cop go by. But he didn't go by? He slowed down? What...did he want me? Maybe I dropped something? Sure enough he wanted to talk to me and I don't know why it took me so long to figure out that it was related to the red light I had just fired through!! So of course I stopped completely and as I turned to meet him I said, "I'll bet you want to give me shit for riding through that red light". His response, "I know those are clipless pedals and hard to get out of, but riding through a red light with a cop right behind you is not very smart." He seemed like he may have a sense of humour so I said, "I guess I should either get a rear view mirror, or stop riding through red lights". He smiled and recommended option two. He then asked my name and recognized it immediately...he knew one of my kids he said, and of course you know what I'm thinking...aw shit! But it wasn't that at all. It turns out that he remembered Michael from when Mike and his son Richard were friends all through grade school. We then traded stories about the current life situations of our 2 kids, and after admiring my bike for a minute he sent me on my way. I will never ride through a red light again...unless of course there's no traffic and no policemen.

I ended up doing 43 kms followed by a 5 k run and considering that long run yesterday I felt quite good. To round out the afternoon I did my weight routine, modified now to almost completely eliminate leg work. Only 2 more weeks and I will eliminate weights altogether.

The last bit of fun I had was putting up a clothes line at the neighbours. Colby thought it was built exclusively as an amusement for him, but it turned out to be an amusement for everyone as it fell down before it even dried any clothes....what an idiot!

I also had a nice talk to Penticton Paul tonite to get some more race advice...what a resource he's been.

I wish to dedicate day 302 to Officer Chatfield.... a decent sort of cop.

"If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?'---John C. White

“A man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"---Henny Youngman

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