Posted on 20 Jul 03:07 pm

Koorman’s Cavaliers

The Salt Lake Oval is one of the best long-track facilities in the world. There has always been a small short track club, but no top level short-track team to equal the long track vibe.

This summer Mike Koorman started an ambitious short track program, and several people I know have joined. They are happy in summer training hell.

I ran into them this morning, in the green, leafy expanse of Liberty Park. I love the smell of burning quads in the morning! This turncable workout looked vicious! Easy stepping until it begins to hurt, then an all out sprint… This is Inacio Lopez bopping along.

Like me, all these guys came to Salt Lake to become the best they can be in this crazy sport. My mood was warmed via mutual inspiration, or is that merely heatstroke?

As I was warming up for my own plateful of inline intervals, I was chatting with them, and met Nick, an easygoing short tracker just moved here from California. I introduced myself, and he said, “oh, I know who you are, I read your blog!”

You could’ve knocked me over with a feather…. Sometimes I forget that people actually read this, then I look at my webstats in wonderment at the numbers I see… It’s now my ambition now to meet as many of you mysterious daily readers as I can!

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6 Responses to “Koorman’s Cavaliers”

  1. Tim "SKEELER" Demerjian, on July 21st, 2006 at 2:30 am Said:

    Your blog has greatly contributed to my speedskating lifestyle. Thank you.

  2. Dan Grant, on July 21st, 2006 at 9:18 am Said:

    I read your blog and am always pleased when there’s an update. I’m in the Masters (a.k.a. mid life crisis) skating category, and your blog has helped to motivate me to embark on a summer training regimen. Many thanks for putting this out for all of us to see.

  3. Jamie Cowen, on July 22nd, 2006 at 6:50 pm Said:

    Andrew, awesome job winning the Draper Days 5K inline race today. Thanks for bringing your positive energy to our local inline community. I am looking forward to your post. As I do often.

  4. Joie, on July 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 am Said:

    Yes!
    Let us know about your inline racing!

  5. MikeinSJ, on July 27th, 2006 at 3:26 pm Said:

    Andrew I’m from northern california and also get motivated reading your posts. Nick came from our club out here. I see he can still stand up… he must not be working hard enough!

  6. FlyingAfrican, on July 28th, 2006 at 9:46 pm Said:

    Mike…hmmmphfff…

    I was assisting Inacio in umm… making sure his umm … hips didn’t come out of alignment when doing turncables… or some such… lol

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