Showing posts with label Gym. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gym. Show all posts

Monday, 18 February 2013

Would you like a smoke and a pancake?


Last year, I introduced this member of our team with one line “I am from Holland, isn’t that weird!” There are rumours going around that he was sent to school in Canada by his family because he eats too much food and it is too expensive. He was once known to have been referred to by one of our coaches as an ‘Abercrombie model’; I know what you’re thinking; yes this coach was a guy. The coach was also a German, and not Volker. This is starting to lead me to the conclusion that perhaps the Germans have a more liberal point of view on sexuality and nudity and what counts as appropriate or not appropriate comments to make. I am referencing one Volker Nolte at this point – he has been known to say things like “if you drop something, you must get on your knew and take it”. I’ve kind of strayed away from describing our Dutch athlete, so let’s go back to that. He’s a big guy and he has sometimes been known for late night McDonalds runs, and by sometimes, I mean all the time. His hobbies include, bar starring, lifting weights, speaking in Dutch, erging, lifting more weights, and stuff like that. He recently spend an evening serving ice cream at Marble Slab, not so funny, but an interesting fact. Some say that he was recently found trying to sell concrete chips as pieces of meteorite for very high prices, and that he recently received 12 000 concert tickets, all for the same Beyonce concert. All we know is, it’s Jerome VanLeeuwen.

In an effort to increase our female readership, here’s a picture of Jerome shirtless in a field. After all it has been said  by the ladies: “it’s impossible to take a bad picture of Jerome, he has Barney Stinson syndrome”.


Sunday, 17 February 2013

Yesterday's Trip From Another Prespective

First off: we have a quick link to a youtube video captured by the other car on the trip yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJWvgK-qdA&feature=youtu.be

Natasha was travelling in down in a different car and she wrote up a blog post about the experience, it was written entirely by her.


My morning started off with having to leave my bike in the erg room for the week because there wasn't enough room in the vans.  This was a little disappointing because I was hoping to bike to and from the lake every morning, but to my relief André pointed out that there was a gym not too far from the hotel and that it only costs $20 for the week.  Then, after putting my bike and front wheel in the dungeons of Thames Hall, Matt asked me to switch vans with Jérôme because "putting him in the back would be inhumane".  I have accepted the fact that I am small, and can fit in small places, but being relegated to the back seat is never something I look forward to.  Oh well, at least I sleep well in cars because it took all of three minutes before I fell asleep.  

And this is essentially how the rest of the trip progressed for me.  We left Alumni Hall at around 5:20AM and arrived at the hotel around 9PM.  During these almost 16 hours I think it's safe to say that I slept for about 13 of them...at least.  But when I was awake, I had the pleasure of experiencing Matt's swervey driving and swearing, Lenore's entertaining comments, Waffle House and a few other stops along the way.  Here's are the highlights that I took with me:


Road rage before 10AM
Matt after ordering at Waffle House: "I'm home, baby"
André's take: "Those waffles were awful. Don't tell Matt."

Lenore: "Have you ever seen a horse pee? It's like a waterfall. "

Matt:" if advise against hitting me in the larynx right now."

Lenore, while driving the through the woods in Tennessee:"So where are the other 7 million people?" And  "if we crash we can go to a cabin and they'll give us deer soup. " 
Matt:"We're on turtle mountain...where the fuck are we?! There are only Baptist churches and no restaurants"
Lenore:"Omg that place was Called RAPERS!!"
Matt:"I'm going to firebomb the next church I see"
Lenore:"Oh a traffic light. Make it through, I don't want to get stopped here." 

Lenore when we stopped for dinner in Georgia: "I need to get out more, need to see the world. This is seriously shocking"

Maria: You can't go this way
Matt: This isn't a road?
Everyone: No!
Matt: Is it getting narrower?
Everyone: Yes!
Matt: Well shit fuck

Alex: You guys, we're alive, that's all that matters. 
Kat: I'm actually really ok with that. Were alive, the boats are in one piece. 
Alex: That's the fourth time I thought I was going to die today 
Lenore: Are we almost there? That looks like YOLO. Wait, where are we going? Gainiesville?
"We're going offroading...and Matt's going to go to Waffle House"
"I feel great right now. I'm like drunk or something "

Lenore: Are there alligators in this ocean?
André: yea, there are. I googled it. 
Lenore: why would they do that?