I know this is what you've been waiting for... it's the stats for the end of the year... I'm not going to bother graphing them but I'll run through each statistic and give a bit of a commentary instead.
- Banana Bread slices eaten... 24. I was eating banana bread consistently through the start of the season but then switched to cookies... of which I probably had more than one a day on average. Disappointed by this total but if I'd tallied the cookies then it might have been better.
- Burgers eaten... 35. This works out to be one every three days. I started out the season averaging one every two days but then I discovered that rice and noodle bowls were actually a healthier and more fulfilling thing to eat whilst on the mountain. This meant that I started limiting burgers to occasional apres forays to the Brewhouse or the GLC. Note that there was one day when I had a burger for lunch and a burger for dinner... I think this was during my level 3 course in fact.
- Jacuzzis taken... 8. Although I had a hot tub in my apartment block, I could rarely be bothered to venture to it in favour of the bath. There was more motivation (and room) when Jennifer came to visit, thus the spikes of activity at Christmas and Presidents week. My final Jacuzzi of the season came when I went for one with George, Lian, Marko and Yovona. Unfortunately George fell, concussed himself and broke his wrist. There should be a health warning on the door of those things!
- Calls to Jennifer... 157. That's about 3 calls every two days. It's not hard to see why, when you miss someone that much, that you call them. Much respect to Jennifer who lost countless hours of sleep to stay up at ridiculous times to talk to me. Thanks honey!
- Jaegermester shots... 1. Perhaps it's because I'm going to be 30 this year but I managed to minimise the number of shots I had this year to 3. Two of them were to be blamed on George and Lian but the other one was a proper shot of Jaegermeister taken in the Crystal Hut with Jennifer there as my witness (and she joined in on the shots too!).
- Wipeouts... 17. This was going to be 16 until yesterday when I had a good powdery face plant trying to jump off a small cliff! Generally this is one fall every 5 days of skiing so that's not a bad statistic. I'm actually surprised I fell over this many times but then by the middle of the season I was starting to jump off some silly and more challenging things so I guess it was inevitable that I'd fall every so often.
- Skiers instructed... 86. This is a very low number but then I wasn't teaching for the money so my emphasis was on skiing. I think I taught about 25 lessons during the season. This actually averages out to one every 3 days on snow. I guess that means that I got lots of time for practice, training and fun.
- Powder days... 34. This year was the best snow year on record for about 30 years in Whistler. Certainly up to February the snowfall was breaking all the records and the established pros were saying it was the best they'd ever seen.
- Days skied... 90 (67 on Whistler, 23 on Blackcomb). I guess the number of days spent on Whistler is higher because I worked mainly on Whistler. Courses and training were often done on Blackcomb. Also Blackcomb is often the mountain of choice when planning epic powder days. In total I had 18 days off during the season. So to ski 90 days is pretty good; considering the magnitude of some of the skiing days. Long gone are the days where Rach and I could ski to the max all day every day for a fortnight or longer. Nowadays the skiing is more intense, and the body takes longer to recover.
It's been fun keeping track of all this stuff and I'd find it interesting to compare if I ever did another season... Thanks for humouring my geekiness!
