Remember the Olympics? Van2010

Jul 14 2011

Last week, South Korea was awarded the Games in 2018. Good luck to them.

Let’s take a look back at ours last year. Many of these photos you’ve not seen, I’ll throw in a couple episodes, too.

The photo text is true; there’s almost no point to posting that photo. H U G E.

‘Irish House’ was out my window, where I lived.

Right in the middle of everything. Irish House was THE place, not being dramatic. They were collecting noise violation fines before the Games even started.

We’d hear ‘I Would Walk 500 Miles’, and ‘Small Town Girl’, three times a night minimum. Fortunately, by day 10 neither Mary or I could hear it anymore… that thing that humans have kicked in and tuned it out. Like the people who live beside train tracks.

Mary and me.

We’re at a club, my editor gave me tickets and said, take the night off.

Thanks to Mary is why my Olympics was as great as it was. I went out there, without a place to stay (no really – there was talk at my newspaper of some empty moved-out apartment, I had a towel with me, just figured I’d wing it all).

Mary offered her couch, I crashed onto it three days into the Games, then never left.

I thanked her by leaving a bunch of swag hidden around her house, including a cowbell in her freezer. Which she recently moved to her freezer … 5 provinces away, see it here.

I had this great morning routine going by the end… wake up, walk down to my coffee spot, pick up a paper along the way, read my article and eat a gingersnap cookie, back home and get online, and start working.

I was there representing Canoe.ca and, in addition to producing videos, I wrote for Vancouver 24 Hours. Read them all here. Third largest newspaper in BC!

“Social Keri”; I had not input there.

That backpack, my mobile studio – 22 pounds.

I was the only person at the paper, left to her own devices, not tasked with a story. Instead, I was expected to chase down and produce my own. Proud of that.

I met Carol Huynh on the Alberta Train. She’s our first ever Gold Medalist for Women’s Wrestling (2008). Click here for her podium moment when our anthem plays, very cute.

I don’t remember this photo being taken… at this point, I’ve been awake for 36 hours, filmed and produced two videos, and was en route to film a third.

This is Exploring Whistler Village, shot that day, I really like this episode.

I squished so much into three weeks, I didn’t stop.

There’s so many stories and behind-the-scenes stuff I could tell you, cue up another video series.

I’ll leave you with this: the spirit I went into this all with.

This was taken right downtown, after the men won a hockey game.

And here’s me, taken minutes after the above (my camera is on a garbage can).

It’s from this episode, What Happened After Our Hockey Win

GO CANADA GO!

Indy Day 2

Jul 10 2011

It was bumper cars today at the 25th Honda Indy.

Dario Franchitti smashed his way to his 3rd Toronto Indy win, congratulations! Will Power is upset. Read about it here.

The weather was perfect, fighter jets overhead, it was a fantastic weekend, thanks again, Honda!

This is the first video I’ve uploaded to Google+

Add me gplus.to/KeriBlog

Under the bleachers on the way out.

Here’s the editing file….. did you think there’d be that many cuts?? Exactly. Smirk.

Here’s to a good and productive start to your week!!

Meet My Cycling Team

Jun 20 2011

If we recently met, it’s my 4th season of being President of a Cycling Team, so there will be summer braggy posts like this, and overly-dramatic capitlaizing of words like President.

My team is awesome, and we win a lot.

Technically they are riding for my show, The Canadian Explorer.

This is Episode #30 from said show – Exploring Cycling.

I should record a Twitvid of the audio when the peloton goes by. A peloton is a pack of cyclists.

Racing is brutally hard, like, see top right above? If you had that much lactic acid in your body right now, you wouldn’t be able to finish reading this post, you’d be so sick. Beasts.

Couple that with how I rule with my little iron fist, and you get wins.

Last week we placed first in the KW Classic 2011 Road Race, YES Nick!! The year before that we took second, YES Gary!! As in, the best in all Ontario YES.

Nationals are coming up, and then the Canada Day Chin Picnic, which we dominated last year.

Sometimes, not gonna lie, in between laps can be a bit dull.

Good thing I am excellent at amusing myself. Here’s how I sometimes cheer. And look, it’s just my size.

One time though I was too good at it, and missed the finish to the above 1st/2nd win, because I was picking flowers in the park.

Some weekend ago was freezing and I had only sandals. I tried putting hot balm on my feet (it works), then hiked around the track.

It’s weird to look down and have someone else’s feet be there.

Here’s my favoruite parts about the sport of cycling.

I filmed this ages ago, when I was testing doing videos on a time-limit, which became my mini-video-series – Just a Minute.

They’re all one minute long, a variety of topics, click here, watch just one, thanks!

Kay one more dramatic photo.

All KeriBlog cycling posts found here.

All Canadian Explorer cycling posts here

PS – to my older readers thanks, I know you’ve seen some of the above before, but now I have a solid cycling-themed post to use as an introduction and sales too ;)