LT World Cup Results, Cheex Skating Blog, Trans-USA Record Attempt, SSR Plug, Medellin Clasica, Teun Breedijk Interview, IP Skate Tip- Rain, FB's Fire

LT World Cup Results: Before I start off with my incessant ramblings, reportings, and incohrent thouhts, I thought I would link to to this Speedskating-online spot news by Naomi who is a Dutch speed skating fan; I’m a fan and everybody has to know it...?.

Onwards; it's 11:30am here in Mississauga and all of today's results from the long track world cup in Heerenveen are already in.

Speed Skating World Online Magazine is providing us with distance-by-distance commentary- men 5km A, women 1500 A, men 500 A, men 5km B, women 1500 B, men 500 B, men 1500, women 3k A, men 500 #1 A, women 500 A, men 1500 B, women 3k B, men 500 #1 B, and women 500 B.

Here is an article for you; Denny Morrison wins silver medal at speed skating World Cup.

You can find some pretty sweet pictures from this weekend's world cup thanks to Meijco.nl.


Yuya Oikawa- photo from Meijco.nl

Denny Morrison- photo from Meijco.nl

Judith Hesse- photo from Meijco.nl
Cheex Skating Blog: USA's Michael Cheeks has a blog. He put up a report on the Greensboro Meet. He says ' I remember being a kid and getting super nervous about this meet. Even though we were never really training for it, you always like to do well the first meet of the season' and 'First thing that really stick out in my mind about this meet Is the talent level of the younger kids. Wow, really impressed with all kids and just how fast they're going'. Definitely looking forward to reading more of his thoughts and perspectives.


Michael Cheeks (center) before the road relay finals at the 2007 world championsihps in Cali, Colombia
Trans-USA Record Attempt: What will you be doing on January 1st 2008? Recovering from a New Year's party? Danny Dannels has other plans- very very nice. See Trans-USA Record Attempt. 'Hi! Danny Dannels here. I skate with the Texas Flyers. I have received authorization from Guinness World Records to make a Trans-USA record attempt on my speed skates. I will be skating up to 100 miles per day from Jacksonville, FL to San Diego, CA. I will be skating in the I-10 corridor (not on I-10). I am projecting a 30+ day journey rife with human struggle and accomplishments. I will also be blogging my account on my MySpace page during the trip. I begin January 1, 2008'. Best of luck Danny!

SSR Plug: This is a plug for Speedskating Results; it's the place to go when you're looking for long track ice results. It's in the links on the right hand side of this section under 'A FEW GOOD LINKS'.


Medellin Clasica: You can find Spanish language reports and results from Colombia's Medellin Clasica here and here.

Teun Breedijk Interview: Skate Podium has a video interview with Teun Breedijk about the Essent Cup. There are lots of cool shots of the media and motorbike that rides on the inside of the peloton.

IP Skate Tip- Rain: The latest of the Inline Planet's skate tips is Skating in the Rain. Ugh, rain. Remember my video of tips on how to skate in the snow? How cool was that?


2006 world championships marathon in the rain in Korea

FB's Fire: Flyin Brian put up a good entry about the 2006 Winter Olympic opening ceremony- it's called Light the Fire Within. He says 'So the Friday night real show at the Opening Ceremonies seemed like a crap shoot. 60,000 fans and a few billion on live TV. I know the choregrapher Sara Karahara and the producers were stressed the last week. Amazingly, everything went off without a hitch'.