I described speed skating training a bit in No Regrets Part 5. But ultimately you don’t train to train. You train to race.
Ice Speedskating Racing: An Overview
People used to ask me all the time when racing season started and in this regard, ice speed skating is that much stranger. Outside of a few events that nobody cares about, there really isn’t a racing series except for the top skaters at least not in the United States. They skate World Cup and World Championships (both the overall and individual distances) and there are a handful of other events at most.
For everybody else, here’s how it works:
You train your brains out to skate practice time trials. Once these started they were usually held at least twice per month from about October to March. Typically you sign up for two distances (you really can’t physically do more than that) and go race to post a time butt-early on Saturday.… Keep Reading