Zen and the Art of Speedskating

I am about to walk out the door of my house, to go watch/photograph the Salt Lake City world cup races. But 2 things first-

I bid a warm welcome to the massive avalanche of web-traffic coming to this blog from several websites that follow the career of Apolo Ohno (thanks Noelle & Ohnozone for the link & kind words).

I never thought I would experience more intense force in the web-skating-universe than devoted Dutch speedskating fans, but there is one; Apolo fans!!!

Whoa!! There are a LOT of you out there. You folks are setting some serious daily visitor records for this website!

Its great! Although I think this amount of crazy-traffic will run me out of bandwidth again, but what a wonderful problem to have!

Speaking of records, although the speedskating world will be looking at the Salt Lake oval today for world records, the Pettit National Ice center just re-did their wall of rink record-banners (thanks Rob Multerer of the Pettit for these pictures).

First of all, here are the Men’s records, it’s worth mentioning the new Men’s 3k, held by Zen-10 interviewee Trevor Marsicano.

There are some pretty heavy-duty names on that list!

And here is the new banner of women’s records-

If you look at the bottom of this list at the 10,000m women’s rink record, you will see one of my closest friends in the sport has finally gotten the recognition she deserves for her tremendous distance skating ability.

Although some might not take the 100m, or the men’s 3,000 & women’s 10,000 records that seriously, try and go faster if you can!

Congratulations Carla “last-lap” Langenthal on the women’s 10,000m Pettit National Ice center rink record! I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!

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