From KT – July 11 ,2015

Yo DaVita Village

It is Saturday morning.  I would like to start by congratulating Uma, my companion, and Stephanie, JR’s companion, for their impressive MTM work.  Perhaps I will tell the program operators not to include companions in the future, as they make me look bad.  Life’s rich pageant!

I am up at our Colorado mountain cabin, with 8 guys.  Old and dear friends.  We call it FRED weekend.  Friendship, Relaxation, Exercise, and Discourse.  I put it on once a year.

We will go out for a big mountain bike ride this am.  Lots of single track, lots of tough vertical.  Awesome workout.  Then in the late afternoon we have 2 guest speakers, one a professor active in cyber security and the other a former ambassador to Iraq, during the war.  Should be fascinating.

Yesterday I did 26 minutes of life cycle in the am, and then got 45 minutes of outside mountain biking before we all had dinner.  I was mountain biking with a young and fit guy, so i got psyched up and made it up a section (the Larkspur Lunge) I have never made before without having to walk during that steep stretch.  Also set a personal record of 28:22 to the end of the climb.  Fun to coast back to the cabin after that.

This is a good group, all but one have worked for the Village.  One of them is now CEO of a Radiology company.  A second is CEO of an Anesthesiology company.  A third is CEO of a Vet Hospital company.  One is a former member of Board of Directors and a mentor and coach for many of our young execs, another is currently on the Board.  JR is here as well.  At dinner I put out a couple table questions that each person answers, which makes for a distinctively meaningful conversation.

The ride we will do this am is a tough one for me, because the single track gets so narrow on some of the climbs.  I have a hard time staying on the track, and once you go off you are typically toast because you cannot keep going.  I have only made it up all 4 hills without getting off the bike one time.  I was 10 pounds lighter then, however.  Yikes.  The guys riding with me this am are all 10-15 years younger.

Speaking of weight I was down to 194.8 yesterday.  Unfortunately I had two huge bowls of ice cream late last night, after everyone else had gone to bed, after an evening involving non-trivial wine consumption.  Given we are having grilled burgers for lunch, this is not looking like a great MTM weekend from a calorie perspective.

I hope you have a great weekend!  Savor the adventure of life, as I am with these friends – all of whom have taken stuff from their experience in the Village, and are proud to point it out as they send forth ripples of citizen leadership.

One for All & All for One.   Your Mayor, KT