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beige_alertFriday night was the Biochemistry Department’s party at the Pettit National Ice Center. We saw the silly video the graduate students do every year, we had pizza from Eduardo’s, and, the part I liked, skated on the 400 meter oval. My best flying lap was 56.3 seconds, fairly late in the evening when there were fewer slow people to dodge. The real athletes can do a lap in around thirty seconds, which is pretty impressive. Maybe I should take the speed skating class someday, get some speed skates, and come for the speed skating sessions where I’d be one of the slow people, moseying along at 25 km/hr and trying to stay out of the way of the fast people. It is really nice to be able to go 100 meters in a straight line. The little oval at Red Arrow is all turns, which is good practice, I guess, but it is fun to really hammer along in a straight line.
