Olympics in Milan: The Recap and Exhaustion

As you can imagine, tackling the Olympics, even for a photographer, is not an easy endeavor. I wore my Apple Watch 10 the entire time to keep track of my stats, and some of them are a little crazy.

Walking

There was no shortage of walking in Milan, mainly because all the photographers were left to use the metro as our primary source of transportation. The metro in Milan was a little tough to navigate in the first 3 or 4 days, but once I got the hang of it, it was actually quite good. The only problem was that it was a lot of walking from the stations to the venues. As you can see, in the 22 days that I was in Milan, I walked a total of 155.6 miles. 

Climbing

Most of the metro stations also had an abundance of stairs. Sometimes I would find an escalator or elevator, but most of the time, it was just faster to climb the steps. As you can see, I climbed a total of 320 flights of stairs in those three weeks. Yes, my legs are a little sore.

Shots taken

Since I have been deleting images along the way, this is only an estimate, but I figure that I took somewhere in the area of 50,000 images during the Games. I have kept about 20,000 of those, which takes up almost 1TB on my QNAP server.

Memories

I have countless amazing memories from these Olympics, and was really happy to share many of those with you all.

The Blog

When I started the blog back in 2008 during the Beijing Summer Olympics, I think I had about 8 readers a day. Since that time, things have changed a lot! This month the blog had approximately 400,000 reads. That is crazy! The average blog post took me about an hour to write, and as of this post, there were 45 blog posts written. I must also thank all of you who would email me, comment on the blog, or post comments on social media. I really appreciate the kind notes.

Exhaustion

I did not sleep a lot while I was over in Italy and the exhaustion is real. I actually ended coming home two days ago and have been sick in bed since getting home. I am trying to take it easy now, so I can recuperate and get back to work.

More cool stuff to come

For those of you who are newer to the blog, soon I will revert back to weekly posts. Until the Summer Games in LA 2028 that is. But I promise that there is a ton of other exciting photography to share with you all in the months to come. 

Now I am going back to bed!

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