The Extra Mile

Perry Healey is not your typical cyclist. He is a a touring cyclist. Onward and forward, Perry challenges himself by going the extra mile, literally, when he's on his bike. He talks about his recent trip, which he covered almost 600 miles in 8 weeks from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Talk about cardio, right? Well, this allowed him to expand more on his passion for biking and actually plans on biking to South America in the future, he said. Overall, Perry definitely tells us that the journey is much more memorable than the destination.

Watch the video and read along the transcripts below as he shares his passion for cycling.

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INTRODUCTION SCENE:

-Long shot of Perry walking with bike-

-Nat sound: quiet traffic

SIT-DOWN INTERVIEW My name is Perry Healey and I am an elementary education student at the University of Nevada.

-long shot of Perry walking to house-

One of my passions when it comes to biking is going long distances. I like to travel, what they call touring on my bike.

-nat sound: bike ticking

-long shot of Perry riding

I’ve been biking for about 5 years now. Ever since then, I’ve been biking.

-Medium shot of Perry walking with bike-

Biking everyday. Biking to school, biking to work, everywhere I need to go.

A lot of people I think look at biking as just a mode of transportation, just to get from point A to point B. But it’s really more than that. It becomes more of a community, almost. You’ll be biking down the street, especially when I’m going long distances, on popular bike routes, like I’m going to Verdi or Carson City or something, you see multiple bikers everyday, they always wave at you. You always get a wave, you always get a “hi” people are always interested of what kind of bike you have and what kind of style it is, and things like that.

-close up shot/extreme close up shot of bike

What I would say what differentiates is that tourers like to go really long distances. They still go from point a to point B, but point A is quite a bit further to point B.

-cut in shot-

-medium shot of Perry parking his bike with nat sounds.-

ON THE GO INTERVIEW: Biking is something I stumbled upon. We had this idea to go to San Francisco, right? And we decided, “Hey why don’t we just bike?” At first, it seemed like a crazy idea, but then when you realize you can do it, and you realize that it’s possible, I think it’s something you have to do eventually. So ever since then, I just wanted to go further, wanted to go more places, I want to see how far I can push it.

-show slideshow of trip pictures with camera shot sounds-

RETURN TO SIT-DOWN The biggest trip I’ve done was my San Francisco to LA trip. Whenever you go on a bike trip, it’s really hard. The first couple of days, you’re really excited to where you’re going, you’re seeing all these beautiful sceneries and it’s amazing. But on day 3, you always want to give up, it’s the worst day, your legs are just dead tired, you’re tired of sitting on the stupid bike seat, it’s exhausting! But when you push through that, once you get past day 3, it’s better… it’s good. You’re getting this rhythm where you just coast.

-show slideshow of trip pictures with camera shot sounds-

-close up shot/reverse shot of Perry working on his bike. Ticking sound

TEXT: It took Perry 8 days and 600 miles to finish his San Francisco to Los Angeles Trip

ON THE GO INTERVIEW: I like biking because it just makes sense to me. I can get anywhere I want to go without spending a bunch of money, I don’t  have to pay for gas, I don’t have to pay for car insurance. It just makes economic sense. And I try to consider the environment a lot in everything I do, and biking has such a small impact on the environment compared to cars, and busses and all of that. Biking has done so much for me, and that gives me a way to give back to the environment and it’s just something I love to do.

-close up of Perry riding bicycle. Handlebar scene-

When you bike, I feel you get a… it’s more accomplished…you feel like you have more of an accomplishment.

-wide shot of Perry riding away. Pan up with text scene.

You’ve achieved something greater because you worked really hard. The best thing about biking, and what differentiates it between a car or a motorcycle, is that you really get to appreciate where you’re going.