“Running Local Marathon Once Every Two Weeks”

~ It is Time for another Chapter in: “Your Paper Boys Rant!”

I look it my route as a Three Hour Marathon with 240 stops
40 K’s Driving
3K Jogging

In the delivery World ever Company want their stuff all drop off on Tuesdays or Thursday in my town, Courtenay B.C. on Vancouver Island on the West Coast of Canada in the Pacific North West.

I have contracts with three different Papers for a Total of Five Local Routes

Times Colonist 210 Stop Six Mornings a week 4-7:30 am  except Mondays

Record Largest Bi-weekly Paper in Town

5,000 Papers to Carriers and Rural Boxes 5 Hours Tuesday morning  8am -1 pm

Then every Thursdays From 8 am-2  pm

Totem Times Local Air Force Paper with another  1,700 circulation Tuesdays from 2 pm -6 pm every second week. Did anyone Catch that?

Lets Review;

Tuesdays 3 half hours Times Colonist, 5 Hours Record and 4 Hours Totem Times

Not Bad for an Old Guy Turning 48 this Week

12 hours work in 14 hour Day

Two One Hour Break if every think is on schedule. If not NO Breaks

The 30 Hour Work Week Pays my expenses and Letting us save

• 10% for Long Term Goals
• 10% for Emergencies and short term Goals
• Life is Good!
• Paid to Jog about 30 Km’s weekly
•  Get to Lift Free Weights four times/week average weight  40#’s
• 100 Bundles Tuesday and 500 on Thursdays

Now you can see why  I say I am

Nothing like A little personal challenge!

“Running Local Marathon Once Every Two Weeks”, During that ones day I every two weeks

• 9 Km’s Jogging

• Lift about 100 Bundles into and out of my Half Ton Van ( Have had 2 tons of Papers in that poor old Van a Few Times a week )
• 210 Mail Boxes
• 80 carriers
• 35 rural boxes
• 100 Hand delivered around the Air Force Base and  to Courtenay and Comox Businesses

This is how I plan to stay Healthy I don’t want to get a triple By Pass in Ten years or when the stents Fail.This schedule lets me have about 20 hours a week on-line Working on my Cash Flow machine

I will Keep the morning route till I can not walk it

I would like by the time I am Fifty Five to quit the Heavy Bundle Routes to spend Time OnLine

•  I will not make the same Mistake I made last time when I was making more money than we needed
•  I gave up a Contract That I did not have time for
•  Then three months later I had a relief contract taken a way so the managers Daughter could pay her to live at home while she went to school 
• that was only a few Months after my ” Road Rage Incident  ”
• took  away my MLM  Income from Primerica
•   Do not Think I am Complaining
• I have my Health and that is the greatest Wealth
• A Supportive Wife of Twenty seven Years
•  Two Children that Live with Us By Choice
• Two Perfectly wonderful Grand Kids I get wactha coulpe of times a week
  
•  Father that is a Huge Supporter and my Most Successful Downline
• A Life of Experience and Knowledge that has made me who I am Today