Top Gun Speed Skating Camp Day Four   This camp is all but in the books and it has been a good one. The weather after the first day has been great and Southern Florida has a number of great places to skate without feeling in danger. Today we once again had two training sessions, morning at the road course and then in the afternoon on the banked track.   Our first session on the road course was one of the most productive as ...

Top Gun Speed Skating Camp Day Three   Well this morning was just no good for me. I woke up early enough to pack my stuff up to change rooms but the legs were not willing to move me out of my bed and into the shower. As anyone who has ever done plyometrics (after just starting them for the season) will tell you, the day after is bad, the day after the day after is just terrible. After lots of deep ...

Top Gun Camp Day Two   The effects of the Plyometrics and running on the beach on day one woke me up early for day two of the camp. I was very excited to get started today because I hadn’t skated outside in a number of months and I was getting my new boots at the track (always an exciting day for me).  I love the way my new skates look but more importantly, how would they skate? I mounted them up ...