Drawing parallels

This past weekend we had some great things take place. A group of adventurous mountain bikers rode their bikes on some of BC’s best single track, breathtaking meadows and mountain passes. A committed customer competed in the Ocean man 10km English Bay crossing – specific tides and current needed. The parallels of challenge/training, adversity/participating and victory/completing ring true to each person involved.
Another event took place north of Vancouver, Squamish and Whistler…the Pemberton Music festival. This was an epic event of mass proportion. 40,000 people headed north for the 3day event.
Now we heard of festivalgoers camping and of course some were commuting to Whistler to party and sleep. The general consensus has been that everyone had a great time but didn’t get a lot of sleep. Many great bands and artists performed and created the energy needed to have a good time. The dust created a bit of a mess and the crowd created lineups. So all and all, ‘we had a great time, but had to stand in line a lot’ but with that many ‘humans’ in the mix, that’s a lot of potential issues and specific planning/systems had to be in place to ensure everything went off without a hitch.
Now with 40,000 bodies moving around town, up and down the sea to sky highway – what has been taken away in regards to the Olympics that will be coming our way in 20 moons or so?
This past weekend was said to bring 9million dollars of revenue to the local Pemberton district. Of course a bottle of water was 4$ but what is this teaching us about BC’s epic event in 2010?
We need to get our roads prepped – we need to have all our emergency response resources in order and of course we need to have enough beds at the ready.
How about volunteer’s? How about stepping up and being apart of something that will never be here again? Get some swag and take part!
Regardless, it will be interesting to see if the powers that be look at this past weekend and draw specific parallels towards what BC is up against at the end of this decade.