Speed! Skating!

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When I'm on the oval during a speed skating session, I'm one of the slow people, and I try to stay out of the way of the fast people. At all other times and places on ice, I am a speed-crazed maniac. It's not surprising that this is, in general, the case, but the extent to which this is the case is a bit amazing. It's a really dramatic difference. The really fast speed skaters can double my best speed. Out at Red Arrow there are people moving at barely walking pace and the very fastest people aren't any faster than me. It's just weird going between one situation and the other.