Shopping list

Purchased for the Taupo Food and Beverage kit:

• 4 bottles of Deutz (being on special this week at New World) to add to the 2 bottles of Moet - I think that completes my contribution to the beverage "pool", although I'm trusting it will be supplemented with some "good" Martinborough chardonnay.

Also purchased:

• 4 bottles of blue Powerade (also on special at New World) - for the pre/and ride - will tank up my Camelback with it, and have water on the bike
• Packet of disprins - maybe, for Sunday
• Chapstick - for the ride
• Oliviral tablets - pre Saturday
• Vitamin tablets - pre Saturday
• Sunscreen - although I am working on a Summer tan, on the basis it may get brown before I get to 65kg!

To buy from Moore Wilson's tomorrow:

• Kumara chips
• Chocolate
• Cheese
• Coffee
• Salami/MEAT

Yeah, I wont get to 65kg consuming the above ;-)  One "exemption" weekend though before the next challenges are identified!

On a more serious note (which is not to say that I am not serious about the above itemised shopping becasue I am very serious about this particular shopping!) - but you know: I listened to the latest podcast from Bevan James Eyles earlier this week. 
http://www.bevanjameseyles.com/

It resonated quite a lot.  He uses this quite good case study that I could relate to a lot.  So, while the case study doesn't relate directly to my own personal history, I felt there were parallels in that I know in some ways, I've found it a stumbling block to progess, that in theory and from "work experience" I know a lot of the answers, but it doesn't always make it easier.  In some ways, I've let it be a hurdle to progress.

Also, the easy trap of making various comparisons, and how that can defeat progress.  So, it was good to hear his thoughts on the subject.  Very good.  Because in many ways, I had reached that place where Taupo this year is about completion and where i am right here and now in terms of the journey, rather than where I have been, and where I am going.

Still waiting to hear from the Director re the 6.am start.  I so want that 6am start!! Who would have thought?

Tomorrow is VOTEing day and final pre-Planning with KM - to make sure all the relevant shopping has been completed.  As far as I'm concerned, it has, although it is possible I may have ommitted something important.