Zen and the Art of Speedskating

I have been emailing back and forth with 2 time national ice marathon womens champ Carla Langenthal, about the coaches/silly putty idea I discussed in my previous post, Carla is coached by Olympian & overall nice guy Dave Tamburino. Here is what she emailed me (reprinted here with permission)

Carla says:

I have an image for you. Flamingos are pink because
of what they eat, right? So I am the same THING no matter what a coach tells me to do but get my “color” (performance) from the program I’m given. hahaha

(I thought of this image because): I like low walk workouts, so Dave
keeps saying things like “Carla’s eating this up” and “Carla eats this for
breakfast” and last year Mark Jeter said “you’re chewing this up and
spitting it out” so I was thinking about things that eat things and then
show some result.

And we’re supposed to have one foot on the ice at a time!

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