Alyssa Roenigk sports • adventure • travel • journalist

This morning, (It’s Friday, by the way. Don’t worry. I had to ask, too.) Lindsay and I decided to take a personal day. After we finished writing our “what to watch tomorrow” stories, we headed to the city with no real schedule and definitely no plan. “We’ll just let it happen,” I said. After fighting…

I climbed out of bed around 9:30 this morning. And then I kept climbing. 8 stairs to get out of hotel, 4 to get on the bus (and off again) and 77 to the Sky Train platform. Sure, there was an escalator. But in Canada, people do not “stand on the right, walk on the…

Today was the most beautiful spring day yet. To celebrate, Lindsay and I went running. Seven miles around the waterfront. That’s a new personal record since I started running again recently. I guess hanging around all these Olympic athletes is inspiring me! And I think an Olympic athlete also inspired the city planner. If Pittsburgh…

I feel like a new person today. It is amazing what a good night’s sleep and a shower will do for a person. This morning, women’ snowboardcross finals were delayed because of rainy conditions and heavy fog at Cypress Mountain. It seems Mother Nature may never cooperate with the Olympic event schedule, which is unfortunate.…

Happy President’s Day! Today’s wakeup call was an early one. Is this really only day four of competition? I think I’m going to have to switch to the dark roast at Tim Horton’s. Looking back on this morning, I don’t remember much. I was so blind tired that I can only vaguely recall getting ready…

[Editor’s note: Due to Early Onset Exhaustion, today’s entry is going to be brief.] It’s only Day six and already the Olympics is taking its toll. As I write this Sunday night, I am exhausted. And today wasn’t even a tough day! This morning, I slept in until 8:30 and then stole some morning me-time.…

In the rest of the world, today is apparently Saturday. Which is the first day of a two-day time period called a “weekend.” Here in Olympic world, a day is a day is a day. Weeks are not divided into starts and ends, and hours are not divided–as they typically are–into classifications like “too late…

Today started with so much excitement and promise. The official start of the 2010 Winter Olympics. But it was marred by tragedy. This morning, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili died after crashing violently in a training run. It was heartbreaking news, and the saddest part of the crash was that it feels like it could…

Happy Olympics Eve, everyone! Today was a long one, as I am writing this at 2 a.m. I spent the morning cooped up in my hotel room doing phone interviews, and the afternoon cooped up in the media center at press conferences. But today was a good day to spend indoors. Because it rained all…

This morning, Lindsay and I drove to Whistler to check into the condo we’ll be using while we’re in the mountains covering the alpine (skiing) and sliding (luge, bobsled, skeleton) events. On the two-hour drive up the newly reconfigured highway, we waited … and waited … and waited … to catch our first glimpse of…