This weekend was The Great Race in Elkhart, Indiana - a 10k criterium and 1/2 marathon. As always, I was looking forward to the race, especially since it was a new one for me, and I had never done a 10k crit.
Although I had been training fairly consistently in the week leading up the event, [...]
Entries from May 2008
The Great Race - For Me, Not so Great
May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Race Report
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Double the hills, double the fun!
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Training
Team practice today, we had some of our faster guys show (Jim R. and Murphy Quinn is back from school) so the pace was fast. I dropped at my usual spot on the big hill at around 23 minutes but picked up with Margo and Sadie Grace, an excellent skater who has trained for the [...]
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The Mach 5
May 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Fun
One more Speed Racer post for you. As I said I was a huge fan. When I was learning Hash Animation:Master, I decided to do a 3D version of my favorite car ever. Hash ended up putting it on their application demo CD and I got a free jacket out of it. Here she is, [...]
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Getting Speed in Speedskating (and Speed Racer too)
May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Training
Lately I’ve been working on what I’d call “sustainable speed.” Anyone can skate fast for a few moments, but that isn’t speed skating, that’s sprinting. A speedskater is one who skates fast for the duration of the race, and in my case, it’s endurance races e.g. marathons. As usual in speedskating, it comes down more [...]
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