Continuing from Part 3, now I was in Salt Lake City, I had a teammate and I had a coach. Now what?
A Primer on Speed Skating Part 1: Are You Serious?
As I mentioned in No Regrets Part 2, there is a small tradition of inline skaters successfully making the switch to the ice. I had assumed that my years skating inline (and recall that I did fairly well in my last season) would make my switch easier. Oh how wrong I was. Quite in fact, if anything it did more harm than good. My years doing things wrong would make reprogramming my nervous system that much more labor intensive. I’ll come back to this at the end of today’s installment.
As I quickly found out, my technique absolutely sucked. I mean everything I did was wrong. I was fit as hell and strong as hell but it didn’t do me any good on the ice. … Keep Reading