Sometimes my dad would travel with us or my step-mom or my sister would look after them, or people at the rink, or other relatives. Speed skating is a very close-knit community, and at the rink, our friends would look after the kids. I don't think it hurt them any. I left home for what I thought would be a year. My youngest son was 14 and Chris was just starting university.
Rod is so supportive.
He was home in the evenings and did most of the cooking and grocery shopping. When I came to the NCI, he stayed back and looked after everything. I knew the family would be fed because he had done it for so many years. I couldn't have done what I've done without him. Not at all.