Continuing from No Regrets: Part 6, it’s the start of my final season on the ice. What would happen?
Summer Training 2009
We got straight into summer training and it was on almost immediately. We were on inline once per week, short-track twice weekly, drylanding, biking and doing weights. And everything was clicking. I was starting to get comfortable on the short-track and inline workouts were going well. Dryland had always gone well and I was getting stronger on the bike. My technique was finally catching up with my fitness which was at a lifetime peak.
I was literally on the beginner performance improvement curve again with nearly every workout a PR on both inline and short-track. Either I’d skate a faster average lap time or the same speed for more laps or whatever. After years of frustration it was a very nice place to be again.
For example, the previous year my best sprint lap on short-track was 14.5 seconds. … Keep Reading