{"id":57353,"date":"2026-06-03T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=57353"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:02:28","slug":"of-opportunities-and-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/of-opportunities-and-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Opportunities and Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>\n

We are familiar with the situation. We look at Saturday and we think: I want to do this, but then a week or two before you see that something else is available so you think “Oh now I want to do that”. The result is that the thing you were certain about now becomes a Buridan moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have such a choice this week. A group I like to cycle with once per month, or twice per month if long rides become regular, has a ride scheduled at 09:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simultaneously at 08:00 two running groups are combining for the Saturday run and this is a fantastic opportunity to get a new group so I really want to join that group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is that although there is half an hour to fifty minutes of buffer on paper there is an overlap in reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would have to cut event A short to arrive to Event B on time, but in so doing I’m interrupting what could be a pleasant experience, for a potential pleasant alternative that is uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So often I say that I don’t like when events hard end, once we’re back at the start point. The later event does have such a hard end, so, desspite the ride being potentially fun, I think it’s a shame to interrupt experience A to get to experience B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can spend hours and hours thinking of hypothetical scenarios but in the end the situation is simple. If the experience is good, I stay put after the run, and if the experience leaves me wanting more then I can walk, or run home, and get ready for the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t want to cut a good experience short on a “What if?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>We are familiar with the situation. We look at Saturday and we think: I want to do this, but then a week or two before you see that something else is available so you think “Oh now I want to do that”. The result is that the thing you were certain about now becomes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57354,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57353\/revisions\/57354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}