Results from Day 3
Here is the Pettit ice center at sunrise this past Wednesday morning. Very pretty. Click on it for a bigger version (these are true colors too, no photoshopping).
However fast times often require different weather conditions (low air pressure). This morning it was pouring rain & inside it was quite fast. Over 90% of the skaters racing today skated at least 1 Pettit Center PB. Unfortunately I was not one of them.
Here are the results.
Women’s 500m
Image to the right is Chris Witty, at her first major competiton in quite some time. She’s Back!!!
1. Elli Ochowicz 39.50
2. Christine Witty 40.00
3. Jessica Smith 40.57
4. Lana Gehring 41.11
5. Maria Lamb 41.14
6. Rebekah Bradford 41.39
7. Becky Lang 41.95
8. Catherine Raney 41.98
9. Mia Manganello 42.03
10. Anna Ringsred 42.19
11. Ashlee Barnett 42.37
12. Leah Lambert 43.44
13. Netanya Mintz 43.74
14. April Medley 44.29
15. Anne Bruckner 45.38
Men’s 500m
1. Tucker Fredricks 35.48
2. Kip Carpenter 35.74
3. Shani Davis 36.31
4. Christopher Needham 36.53
5. Donald Stewart 36.60
6. Michael Blumel 36.85
7. James (Clay) Cholewinski 36.96
8. Tyler Goff 36.99
9. Anthony Lobello, Jr. 37.06
10. Matthew Shanahan 37.40
11. Andrew Love 37.51
12. Brent Aussprung. 37.65
13. Matthew Plummer 37.80
14. Nathaniel DeFranco 38.38
15. Mitchell Whitmore 38.43
16. Ronald Macky 38.46
17. Matthew Hickson 38.57
18. Michael Stein-Stewart 38.66
19. Joseph Parrella 38.73
20. Daniel Frederick 38.76
21. Matthew Hotchkiss 38.83
22. Miles Ringsred 39.03
23. Daniel Beck 39.23
24. Alex Ochowicz 39.58
Women’s 1000m
1. Elli Ochowicz 1:19.01
2. Christine Witty 1:19.86
3. Catherine Raney 1:20.10
4. Maria Lamb 1:21.12
5. Mia Manganello 1:21.54
6. Jessica Smith 1:21.74
7. Lana Gehring 1:22.33
8. Rebekah Bradford 1:22.64
8. Anna Ringsred 1:22.64
10. Ashlee Barnett 1:23.65
11. Becky Lang 1:23.97
12. Leah Lambert 1:25.16
13. Netanya Mintz 1:25.70
14. April Medley 1:28.18
15. Anne Bruckner 1:29.75
Men’s 1000m
this image is Shani & Kip, first 200m, then 825m into an incredible 1000m
1. Shani Davis 1:09.76
2. Kip Carpenter 1:10.29
3. Christopher Needham 1:11.35
4. Tucker Fredricks 1:12.07
5. Michael Blumel 1:12.36
6. Donald Stewart 1:12.75
7. Matthew Plummer 1:13.01
8. James (Clay) Cholewinski 1:13.19
9. Tyler Goff 1:13.47
10. Charles Leveille 1:13.69
11. Ronald Macky 1:13.99
12. Anthony Lobello, Jr. 1:14.00
13. Brent Aussprung. 1:14.15
14. Michael Stein-Stewart 1:14.27
15. Mitchell Whitmore 1:15.18
16. Matthew Shanahan 1:15.21
17. Nathaniel DeFranco 1:15.27
18. Liam Ortega 1:15.36
19. Daniel Frederick 1:15.49
20. Daniel Beck 1:16.26
21. Andrew Love 1:16.32
22. Miles Ringsred 1:16.79
23. Alex Ochowicz 1:17.45
24. Joseph Parrella 1:17.84
25. Matthew Hickson 1:18.37
Thanks go out to Ray Medley, I gave him my camera, and he shot the images you see here.
On a personal note, I am truly unhappy with both of my times. I am finding it hard to hit my normal top speed with this different bend & rocker. I’m just not dialed in, and racing with athletes of this caliber, you need perfection in everything. I don’t want to blame my blades, because skates don’t skate themselves, but crap!!!!!!!!
Surveying the 1000m times, fellow 35 year old Danny Frederick said “Wow, these kids are fast.” I agree.
Also worth noting in the results is Anthony Lobello, this Tornio Short Track Olympian, (and inline junior world champ) has been training on the long track for just a few weeks! Whoa!
p.s. welcome to all the Dutch speedskating fans from http://www.schaatsforum.nl
188 of you have visited this site in the last, ummm, about 16 hours!!!
Filed under: from the coffee shop
We will either find a way or make one.
*Hannibal*
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.
*Jacob Riis*
Sometimes you have to keep hammering away at your “rock” so that everything in its composition lines up just the right way–kind of like getting it to an “excited” state. Just then, the inner character will split open to reveal its “true self.”
There’s a lot to the popular sayings, like, “go 110%” or “100 and one.” It’a all about breaking past the threshold that holds everything together.
I’m glad you are there striking “your rock” — because whether you realize it or not, you’re not skating for yourself, you’re skating for all of us!
I don’t know anything about ice times but your only a little over a handful of names below Shani..
And is that a second plus a tad more he is faster than you?
Crack man, that’s pretty grand considering your blades are not dialed in.
I would think that on ice there is less room to play with, than on wheels.
When my frames are off just alittle, I know it and it shows in how I skate.
What a difference a micrometer can make.
Keep putting the pedal to the metal!
Love reading about your racing adventures.
There was this kid at short track the other day who found out he was skating on blades that had been rockered completely wrong- he got it corrected and it made a massive difference.
Andrew, I beleive in you. Go out there and kick it; I know you can do what you want. You’ve got the legs, you’re a beast.
Hello Andrew, here’s one of the Dutch speedskating-fans from schaatsforum.nl, I just discovered your blog, it is realy great! So much inside-information, and awsome pictures. Please keep on going with it.
Here in Holland we have all gone mad; Erben Wennemars just finished third in the national allrounds, with a 10 km of 13.44.58 !!
All those years he has been a sprinter ‘in disguise’ ..
Here also 1 of the Dutch speedskating fans who was there in Heerenveen.. It is great to read your blog and see the great pictures! Keep on doing this great job! And good luck and lots of fun with your speedskating!