Zen and the Art of Speedskating

Whirlwinds of travel, emotion, life.. Absolved of job & Dad duties for the moment, expect a blizzard of posts during the next few days. Gosh… I have time! What is time to write?

For some reason, I love taking pictures of the planes I am about to, or just have, flown on… The dude behind the wing is the captain, inspecting his plane. This made me happy, as he really carefully took his time.

The floor of the Milwaukee Airport, I like this, public art representing the diverse parts of my life.

Arriving in a blustery, dreary fall day, a new banner across the front of the Pettit. No pressure Trevor, really….

a quote from my long ago Zen 10 interview with Joey Cheek

I have found that I do the same few things technically incorrect over and over. The secret for me has been to drive in, day after day, the corrections to those problems. Then when I race to not try and go fast, but to simply let my body do what I have drilled over and over and over. Zen-like huh?

-Joey Cheek

So what have I been drilling into my head that I hope to apply tomorrow? Shorter arm swing, bringing the knees more together, feel the skating from the hips, flow through the turns

There will probably be no videos of my races, no streaming online feed, but last week I did pop off a very solid 500, 37.9, Don Nelson kindly supplied this video- (I’m in red, in the lane opposite me in grey is Junior Stud Lawrence Ducker, I got him by .09 at the line).

This is exactly what I hope to do tomorrow as I race in two 500m events.

I was so overwhelmed with emotion in the run up before trials in 2005, I could barely handle it.

This time, not so much, although many people I know are truly walking in a bubble of pressurized intensity right now.

Whoa, must stop blogging, must start warming up for an easy race prep workout.

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