Teammate Brian Hansen's 1000 Meter bronze medal race from Salt Lake City.

One of his 5 medals earned the last 2 weeks of World Cup competitions in Calgary, Canada and Salt Lake City. You can definitely see his characteristic super strong last lap in this video which is incredible for a 1000 meter race. Yeah Bri!

Neckwarmer's!

In honor of today, the last day of our RallyMe fundraiser (which has already helped us so much this season) you can get a Team Swider-Peltz neckwarmer/buff for $20! Thanks to our awesome Dutch friends the Boogaard's for making them for us! You can get one at the right side of our rally page at the $20 donation level here >> https://www.rallyme.com/rallies/187

Jeffrey's results from US Championships (Oct 25-27)

But first a couple pics I got from some of you who watched the live stream!!! You guys are awesome.

from cousin Mikey Swider

from Ryan Augustino

from Keri Shannon

A quick update here cause we haven't posted any results from the last competition! I raced only twice this time, trying to focus on the 1500m, my best distance. In the end I raced a pretty good 1500m,  had my best placing ever and broke my PB by a second. On the other hand, I started my 5000m really well but too fast so I ended up so tired on the last few laps...it was sooo painful, and painful to watch haha, but you gotta go for it sometimes. So I wasn't too happy with that. Remember, the US has 4 spots in the Olympics for the 1500m so that's where I've gotta be in less than a couple months.

100 days til Sochi!

And Times Square holds a mini Olympic-themed exhibition haha. Pretty sure they didn't have speedskating, though I think a couple short track skaters were there on site.

UPDATE: Actually they did have Travis Jayner and one other short tracker try to skate on artificial (plastic) ice there but after a couple laps and no speed to show for it, decided it was practically impossible to do on speedskates.

US Fall World Cup Trial Races! Watch it live/get results here...

The US Fall World Cup Qualifier kicks of TOMORROW and continues thru Sunday in Salt Lake City....BUT you all can watch it all live online at this link:

ICENETWORK.com

•Jeffrey will be racing the men's 5000m tomorrow (Friday), 1500m on Sunday, and maybe the 500m or 1000m on Saturday, that's TBD. 

(Updated)
•Brian Hansen will be racing the men's 500m tomorrow (Friday), 1000m on Saturday, 1500m Sunday, and it's TBD if he will be racing the 5000m on Friday. 

For results without watching it live, head to: SpeedskatingResults.com and look for the title "US Single Distance Championships/World Cup Qualifier".

The ICE Network Schedule is as follows (which is also on the site):

SCHEDULE (Central Time Zone) 

10/25/2013 10:00am updated	Ladies 500m
10/25/2013 11:06pm updated	Men's 500m
10/25/2013 12:28pm updated	Ladies 3,000m
10/25/2013 1:45pm updated	Junior Men's 3,000m
10/25/2013 2:27pm updated	Men's 5,000m
10/26/2013 11:00am	Ladies 500m #2
10/26/2013 12:08pm	Men's 500m #2
10/26/2013 1:35pm	Ladies 1,000m
10/26/2013 3:00pm	Men's 1,000m
10/27/2013 11:00am	Ladies 1,500m
10/27/2013 12:32pm	Men's 1,500m
10/27/2013 2:59pm	Ladies team pursuit
10/27/2013 3:19pm	Men's team pursuit
10/27/2013 4:04pm	Ladies mass start
10/27/2013 4:19pm	Men's mass start

For those wanting to help support #TeamSwiderPeltz, we still have our RallyMe.com funding site up (it has been extended 30 more days due to funds continuing to come in) and you can find that here.

Or for those that are wanting the T-Shirts that Jeffrey designed, there is a link above, but click here to go directly to the ordering page: TSP T-Shirts!

They are sweet shirts that are actually soft and really good quality, I think American Apparel? :)

God Bless,
Nancy Jr.


1 Corinthians 9:25