My Torch Running Outfit

My Torch Running Outfit

Monday, January 25, 2010

Guess who's Running to Olympic Torch!

This is a little different than my usual travel email. Some of you may not be aware that I have been selected to be a TorchRunner for 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver!

My selection has been met with a combination of excitement by me and indifference from my friends and family.

It would be nice to have at least a few people (besides the two bag ladies and the Dumpster Diver I’ve paid to show up)to cheer me on my way.

The Olympic Committee has wisely added additional security on my portion of the run: Not because they fear demonstrators, but they fear FOR the demonstrators. I have let it be known that I am actually looking forward to protests. After all I am carrying a large club that’s lit on one end. If confronted I intend to wave that sucker like Indiana Jones in the snake pit!

And speaking of the torch. My engineering son feels that the flame is a bit :”on the wimpy side!” He feels that, in the spirit of Tim the Toolman Taylor he can make some “slight modifications” to my torch. The butane fuel he feels is a bit lame. He feels that some high octane rocket fuel should be able to shoot flames twenty feet or more into the air when my torch is ignited. “And why not coloured flames?” He added. “We have the technology!”

While he’s making the small modifications to my torch I’m asking him to take the “La Cuaracha” horn from our boat and hide it inside the torch as well so that I can provide my onlookers with a multi-media sound and light show.

If your’re in the area of North Vancouver near Edgemont Village around 4:00pm on Wednesday February 10th, I could use the support to cheer me on. Supposedly I’m supposed to run 300m, but if things are going well I might just decide to take it all the way to the stadium! If you’re coming please bring a picture so you can catch me setting myself on fire.

My route is from the Royal Bank in Edgemont Village (near the TD bank on the Map) Edgemont Blvd to Ridgewood Drive and along Ridgewood to the Anglican Church (1058 Ridgewood Drive).

Map

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