Outdoor Tough Guys
While “hothouse indoor birds” like myself work on ultimate speed at indoor ovals, the tough guys of speedskating have begun the marathon season.
Here is Marty Haire, leading the Dimon Sports Marathon (results here, note how the 50k was shortened to a 1 hour “blizzard race”).
In this lead pack should be quite a few of my friends, Marty, Danny, Jim, Mike, Tom, Glenn, (and Kathie Z was racing this day too) but it’s so hard to tell who is who when folks are wrapped up against the Adirondack Cold!!
Just over the shoulder of Marty, standing in the boots, I think that is John Dimon, in his usual position at the epicenter of Lake Placid Racing….
Rick Timmerman is the photographer.
Age class nationals are in Lake Placid this year, a bunch of skaters from Utah will don our thickest parkas, and make the trip east. I hope to be there, skating masters nationals on my home track would be amazing. The only obstacle is the travel cost…
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Hello Andrew,
When is the race going to happen? My wife and I are always looking for a good excuse to head to Placid.
“Smarty” Haire looking fit this year.
And That’s Andrew Hodor in the Red Leg Skin.
And the ice has been exceptional there this year!!!
Lake Placid Heaven!
Andrew…thanks for the LPNY “exposure”! Pete D is correct, the LPNY ice has been great this year. The early snow cover kept the “downtown” dirt from blowing on in, and the crew has been hard at work with great pride. Everyone in LPNY is very excited about hosting National’s this year.
On my way to the oval that morning, my car thermometer hit a low of -8 degF coming thru the Cascade Mt pass on Rt 73. It was much warmer at race time… +5 degF I believe. My lightweight Marchese’s have a .0001 R value! When I’m feeling cold, I just remind myself that there’s another whole country north of Lake Placid and I could be skating on the St Foy oval.
That would be Glenn Corso with hands on knees. Kinda reminds me of Jordon Malone in a 3000m…ya think? And Tom Cole is in the back of the line in the second picture. Despite the “WINTER WEATHER WARNING”, Tom made the trip from Kuskegan Mich for this race. What a guy!
Anyhow, looking forward to seeing you soon.
Marty
THAT’S ANDREW HODOR IN THE RED???
you blink your eyes, and a teenager becomes a man… wow…
hahahahaah
the weather has been awesome latley…let’s hope it lasts…and i finally got my marcheses for long track this year! dark blue, pink and silver! simply amazing! and in the second picture up, right above marty in the back, with the dark blue legs is Bizz Burns, i believe this was her first long track meet and third time on longtrack skates