Friday morning Humboldt's Brianne Theisen-Eaton will begin her second Olympic experience at the Games in Rio.

However, long before the 27 year-old even made her way to the 2012 Summer Games in London and the 2016 Games where she is a favourite to capture a medal in the heptathlon there was many nervous days of her traveling Highway 5 to Saskatoon to train as a teenager.

Her mother Kim doesn't have to look too far back on those days.

"Of course she would come cruising up the driveway like she had no brakes kind of thing," she laughed. "She just kind of flew in, we were always glad to hear that garage door open and that's when she would say I just about hit a deer or we just about hit the ditch or somebody cut me off. It's like oh my god, thank god she made it home."

She always made it home, whether it was from St. Augustine elementary where her father Cal is now principal or Humboldt Collegiate Institute where she shattered provincial track records. She even made it home from the University of Oregon where she really honed her track skills essentially turning her into a phenom on the women's circuit. 

The scholarship to Oregon was the catalyst in getting her to two different Games but that was likely the hardest on Kim and Cal.

"That's when it was hard for me," Kim explained. "I think preparing for that time to come when she was leaving. The last year I was very emotional, I think putting her on that plane at the end of August, it was tough, I think for both of us."

Cal and Kim have traveled endlessly to follow their oldest daughter, Austria, China, and of course London in 2012. There has been many learning curves for them highlighted by language barriers and travel, nothing like what Brianne deals with though. 

Cal feels she has gotten over the mental speed bumps that come with any world class sporting event.

"I think that got to her so I think a big goal of hers coming into this Olympics was just the mental side of it. She knows people are saying she is a favourite to get a medal anyways so she said she has been trying to deal with the expectation that people think she should be getting that."

She placed 11th at the Games in London but coming into Rio she has posted the season's highest heptathlon score which adds pressure among the experts and other athletes.

Cal adds that they just want to see her put everything into the next two days and seven events.

"Like Brianne said, as long as she competes to the best of her ability in every event that she does she is going to be happy no matter what the final outcome is. I think that's how we will be too, it's just a helpless feeling because you're there watching right."

The hurdles begin at 6:35 Saskatchewan time, the high jump starts at 7:50, the shot put will be at 5:35 and the day one final event which is the 200 metres is slated for 7:05. Day two starts with the long jump at 8:45, javelin begins at 5pm, the final discipline is the 800 metres which will be ran at 7:50.

Of course with the Games only taking place every four years this could very well be the former Mohawk stars swan song in the sport, but that is something Cal and Kim will face perhaps after the world watches Humboldt's hero have some extra baggage to claim for her return home.

'That part of it, I'm sure it will happen but while she is competing I am going to have a hard time doing that," Cal said of the possibility of her career ending. "I will be really stressed out and nervous but I know when she is done that will kind of happen but I will be able to do it more so when she is finished"

Their contigent will consist of both Cal and Kim's parents, Kim's sister from Calgary and Jessica, Brianne's sister.

You can hear much more from both Kim and Cal below, they invited Bolt FM's Clark Stork into their home prior to their departure for Brazil on Monday.