This is the start of a very different series of articles than I tend to write. For the most part, I haven’t and don’t talk that much abut personal stuff here. I used to do that on a separate blog but I tend to think of those as places where people chatter inanely about myself. But this piece is a little bit different. Today I want to start a fairly long series describing the 5.5 years I spent in Salt Lake City pursuing ice speed skating. How I made the choice to do that so that I’d have no regrets.
Introduction
For the past 5.5 years, as many of you know (and some of you probably don’t), I’ve been living in Salt Lake City training full time at the Utah Olympic Oval (aka the Fastest Ice On Earth). I moved up here in the late summer of 2004 to pursue a singular goal which I’ll get to in Part 2.… Keep Reading