Update 2 from Inzell, Germany (7/13/2013)

Here's a sweet montage I put together today from Brian Hansen's GoPro I used in training this morning. I suggest you watch it all the way through, it's got some killer shots.

Update From Inzell, Germany! (July 10, 2013)

Our home for the month, the Kia Speedskating Academy

Here's my first attempt at a video blog post so bear with me. I'll get better!

Some TSP designs I was having fun with during some free time in Germany (which we have to post about soon!)...

Shredding Some Ice

Nancy and I have been enjoying the last 3 months back in hometown Wheaton but also getting ready for the coming big-time season. We've been vamping up our training for the last two months and we're both feeling good about getting back on the ice to put to use what we've been working on!

So last week Brian and I went up to skate a short track practice at our home rink Pettit National Ice Center and after practice, ice master Paul wanted to hook one of us up to a GoPro to capture the first skaters to shred the fresh ice he just put in on one of the hockey rinks. Kyle Haun wore the cam with me and Brian Hansen skating and making passes around him. The ice was so clear and smooth and the shots turned out pretty sweet! Thanks Paul!

Pretty sweet that speedskating, outside the Olympics, is back on the screen after over a decade of absence!

"speedskaters [will] enjoy more than 13 hours of broadcast coverage on NBC and NBC Sports Network during 11 days of their Olympic trials in December and January — more than any other winter Olympic sport...Never has a winter sport's Olympic trials been featured so extensively on a major network, and Plant believes the exposure will help grow speedskating as well as help fans become familiar with skaters in advance of Sochi." -Mercury News

Found this quoted in this article that someone posted on facebook just now. It's pretty positive about the future of American speedskating and our organization...let's see how time tells the success of this possible turnaround. So far, they still have a major issue to resolve with a significantly unfair competition schedule this year for midwest skaters which will affect medal outcomes at the Olympics. Nevertheless, even though USSpeedskating neglects our team as much as they do, I'm stoked and appreciative of USS that my friends will be able to see a live feed of some of my races for the first time this December-via NBC.