Eccentric dressing in Richmond

Sorry, no photo of this one:

Going from summer to winter is tricky in terms of packing, I try to go as lightly as possible. This means one pair of shoes, good for everything, a shoe that goes with everything-except athletic apparel!

I decided to go for a walk this morning, it was too hot to wear jeans so i used my running shorts, which I brought along for hot tub opportunities. Great short for hot tubs, but they do not go so fashionably with dress shoes, especially with black socks. I know this thanks to passersby. I had a great walk and I think provided some entertainment to Richmond residents.

Canadian Ski Quest New Zealand 2009

Well finally something to write about. Mike Manara and I are off to New Zealand for the annual Canadian Ski Quest tour. I am in Richmond now, staying here overnight en route to Christchurch. I am at the moment in no mans land. I am staying at one of those airport hotels in an area that is totally designed around the car. There is a heap of traffic and thousands of people around, but there is literally nothing here. Unless you count bland hotel restaurants. Life in this placed must be bland bland bland. I am actually looking forward to spending time at the Vancouver airport tomorrow.

I am pretty happy to be going to New Zealand even if I will not be able to ski, I love the country. Mike and I meet tomorrow and we fly through San Francisco to Auckland and then on to Christchurch. I am hoping our stopover in San Fran is long enough to give us a chance to experience it.

Some Mid Summer Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95Eq-5xCC8

Spinal Neutral

The coaches from the Red Mountain Academy got together last week with Academy advisers Damien Moroney and Delia Roberts. One of our goals is to get the Academy athletes moving properly in terms of efficiency and injury prevention. Damien is training us in how to detect correct body position and on how to develop awareness of this within the athletes we are working with.

Acupuncture with Joe Ranallo

In addition to Scenar therapy and Physiotherapy I have been seeing local Acupuncturist Joe Ranallo for treatment of my knee. This has been a fascinating and effective experience and something that I do not understand. Joe focuses on the ear to treat all parts of the body. I am just amazed at how he can Analise my body, he correctly identified most of my past injuries. Yesterday I arrived in pain with a limp and I left with no pain and no limp. I am also sleeping better (Joe also correctly identified that I have sleep problems) and I attribute this to my visits with Joe.

Close Call

To some my life in Rossland through summer looks quite relaxing. However it is not completely stress free. I had a close call with a potential tenant last week who had moved some of his things into my rental house. In the process of being the good landlord and ensuring the move for the tenant went smoothly, I discovered him moving in a marijuana grow op, about 10 plants! This could have been disastrous for me. It is a situation where he is at no risk (the RCMP did a "no charge seizure" of his plants), but where I am at risk of losing my house. If an insurance company discovers that there has been a grow op in a house, they immediately cancel the policy, which in turn means the bank has no security which results in them foreclosing on the mortgage on the house. This fucking asshole put my life savings and the security of my family at risk just to support his habit. He asked me for a second chance....... The real piss off is that he came across to me as the victim of the ordeal.

I went through an emotional roller coaster with this one, going from livid anger, though confrontation, with the final result thankfully being happy relief.

SCENAR TREATMENT

For the past two months I have been undertaking SCENAR treatment on my ruptured Patella tendon. Peter Stuart and Canadian Ski Quest particpant Kimberly Pegg from Rossland are the Canadian distributors of the devices. I have found the treatment to be highly and immediately effective. I have been seeing Peter and Kimberley twice a week and believe this treatment has really speeded my recovery along. Visiting Rossland this week is Helen Gracie from Australia. Helen is the CEO of Scenar Health. More info can be found on their website. In the photo are myself, Peter Stuart (crouching), and Helen Gracie.


http://www.scenarhealth.com/