Day 62 July 7, 2011 Day off Toronto
7 Jul
Mike and I arrived at the set of BT Toronto at the City TV building at 7:30am. It was pretty cool, with people walking around in sort of controlled chaos. Also on BT that morning was Robert Herjavec from the show Dragon’s Den. He had brought his Ferrari racecar that I’m guessing was going to take part in the Indy that is on this weekend in Toronto. It was a pretty cool looking car!
We met with Kevin Forget, the producer we had been talking with and he told us I’d be on towards the end of the show and to help ourselves to the orange juice in the fridge. I’m not kidding when I say the entire fridge was packed with Tropicana orange juice. There was nothing else in there, and no space left for anything else. I’m not sure how often they stock that thing, but it seemed a little ridiculous.
I was interviewed by Dina, with the two of us standing in front of a screen. My segment came on right after a commercial break, but as the commercials were ending there was disagreement as to whether I was going to start, or whether they were going to show a live shot of a helicopter landing on the roof of hospital with a victim of the morning’s car crash. One of the guys was motioning that they were going upstairs with the helicopter footage; the other was saying that they were going with me. This disagreement continued right up until the commercials ended and Dina and I watched the screen to see what was going to come up. She and I were shown on the screen, so we started, but about 20 seconds in the other guy was still motioning to go upstairs so they interrupted us for the helicopter footage. Dina and I spoke a bit while waiting for them to come back to us and then we carried on.
Shortly after BT Toronto finished I went upstairs and was interviewed via satellite for BT Vancouver. It was a bizarre experience because I was sitting on a chair in front of a window with an earpiece in my ear and a cameraman in front of me. That was it. I couldn’t see myself and I couldn’t see the person I was talking to, I could only hear him in my ear. So I just kept looking into the camera and answered his questions. At one point during the interview he mentioned that he thought someone walked in front of my camera. I didn’t know what he was talking about because no one did but when I watched it back later it looks as though a girl walks in front of me twice. I don’t know how to explain that.
After leaving City TV we drove to Mississauga to meet with Mizuno, which is the company that makes the shoes I run in. I’ve been trying to get additional pairs of shoes, the same ones I’m currently running in but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere, in any city I’ve visited yet. Barbara at Mizuno donated two pairs of the runners as well as some additional clothing. Awesome!
All this and it was only 11am. I spent much of the rest of the day working on my research and by the time 5pm came around I was exhausted and felt like I could sleep for days.
That night my aunt and uncle hosted a BBQ for a number of relatives and family friends, and it was a great to see everyone that came out. My mother also arrived today, the first time I had seen her since starting my run! It’s great to have her here!
By the time I actually got to bed, I could barely keep my eyes open.
We met with Kevin Forget, the producer we had been talking with and he told us I’d be on towards the end of the show and to help ourselves to the orange juice in the fridge. I’m not kidding when I say the entire fridge was packed with Tropicana orange juice. There was nothing else in there, and no space left for anything else. I’m not sure how often they stock that thing, but it seemed a little ridiculous.
I was interviewed by Dina, with the two of us standing in front of a screen. My segment came on right after a commercial break, but as the commercials were ending there was disagreement as to whether I was going to start, or whether they were going to show a live shot of a helicopter landing on the roof of hospital with a victim of the morning’s car crash. One of the guys was motioning that they were going upstairs with the helicopter footage; the other was saying that they were going with me. This disagreement continued right up until the commercials ended and Dina and I watched the screen to see what was going to come up. She and I were shown on the screen, so we started, but about 20 seconds in the other guy was still motioning to go upstairs so they interrupted us for the helicopter footage. Dina and I spoke a bit while waiting for them to come back to us and then we carried on.
Shortly after BT Toronto finished I went upstairs and was interviewed via satellite for BT Vancouver. It was a bizarre experience because I was sitting on a chair in front of a window with an earpiece in my ear and a cameraman in front of me. That was it. I couldn’t see myself and I couldn’t see the person I was talking to, I could only hear him in my ear. So I just kept looking into the camera and answered his questions. At one point during the interview he mentioned that he thought someone walked in front of my camera. I didn’t know what he was talking about because no one did but when I watched it back later it looks as though a girl walks in front of me twice. I don’t know how to explain that.
After leaving City TV we drove to Mississauga to meet with Mizuno, which is the company that makes the shoes I run in. I’ve been trying to get additional pairs of shoes, the same ones I’m currently running in but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere, in any city I’ve visited yet. Barbara at Mizuno donated two pairs of the runners as well as some additional clothing. Awesome!
All this and it was only 11am. I spent much of the rest of the day working on my research and by the time 5pm came around I was exhausted and felt like I could sleep for days.
That night my aunt and uncle hosted a BBQ for a number of relatives and family friends, and it was a great to see everyone that came out. My mother also arrived today, the first time I had seen her since starting my run! It’s great to have her here!
By the time I actually got to bed, I could barely keep my eyes open.
