Riklis says that a bad day skiing …

We start our day at 8:00 am putting on our equipment at the lifts. We are on the first chairs at 8:15 am, sometimes the actual first chair of skiers for the day (but we are never very far behind those first people). Depending on the level of my physical conditioning (remember, I’m a fat, sedentary, city dweller), we can get in 15 to 20 runs by Noon. We stop at Noon, have a lovely and unhurried lunch at a one of the wonderful restaurants in Vail Village, and then spend the afternoon in some other activity. Mike usually goes after lunch to check on business at the stores and I usually spend the afternoon with my wife, getting a massage, going shopping, etc. I consider this a much better use of my day. I effectively get a full ski day as measured by the number of runs and then have the afternoon to spend in another way.

Continuing:

We start our day at 8:00 am putting on our equipment at the lifts. We are on the first chairs at 8:15 am, sometimes the actual first chair of skiers for the day (but we are never very far behind those first people). Depending on the level of my physical conditioning (remember, I’m a fat, sedentary, city dweller), we can get in 15 to 20 runs by Noon.

We stop at Noon, have a lovely and unhurried lunch at a one of the wonderful restaurants in Vail Village, and then spend the afternoon in some other activity. Mike usually goes after lunch to check on business at the stores and I usually spend the afternoon with my wife, getting a massage, going shopping, etc.

I consider this a much better use of my day. I effectively get a full ski day as measured by the number of runs and then have the afternoon to spend in another way.

Remember to check out more about Ira Riklis at his LinkedIn page and his Charities site.

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