Milpitas Speed

Too Funny!

And I just found out from one of our newer skaters in the league (Janet) that she didn't know that in addition to being the competitive steward i'm a coach for Milpitas... a direct quote from her... "I thought you just held the jewelry for the skaters" man! how's that for a compliment!

2009 Indoor National Championships -- Relays

We started relays today! Thomas and jacob didn't fare too well... returning to the gate area! sheesh!

Nastassia and David are coming up soon so more

2009 Indoor National Champions

A quick note from the cell phone while taking some pics... racing going well and fast. Nastassia just finished her racing for division... while not what im sure she was hoping for I think she skated well.

2009 National Indoor Championships - Slips and Trips...

I'll start posting some of the falls and slips that i've caught from my little vantage point.

The first one, one of the best in my opinion is Erin doing... well something Weird and going down... but not just down, but flat and across scaring the death outta the following two other world class ladies.

Nastassia selling raffle tix...

Nastassia doing her community service to help the World Team. She had quite the line every time she had to sell.

2009 Indoor National Championships -- So Far

Well nationals has been been pretty decent so far. the turnout has been good with not too many heats being compressed into semis or finals.

On other news Nastassia has skated prpbably the best I've ever seen. The speed committee met and decided that current qualifiers for worlds could skate their original divisions. so nastassia skated junior ladies and is so far doing good from what she has in the past.

kendal sword is also skating very well, the girls in here finals have been very fast and kendal has been holding her own.

soooo there you have it so far... its been pretty good and fun. I'll check in later.

Coach & Gail

Here we are in the civic center during warm ups. since were bored im gonna start blogging from the stand since I can't take pics from the ground level for some assanine reason

2009 National Indoor Championships - Trip from Hell...

Without going into it greatly... since I need the sleep... My trip from California to Illinois just took almost 16 HOURS!! Ill update later but Im hitting the hay!

2009 World Games -- Thats it till 6:00pm local...

And thats it for now till about 6:00pm local when the athletes will be back for the 1000m Finals and 15k finals.

There was some interesting racing today form what I saw in the results... There were people who I expected to be in there for finals or even semis and surprisingly didnt make it. Im not just speaking to the US contingent but the field as a whole I was surprised by a number of placements to say the least.

Still trying to get a hold of some video but no one seems to have uploaded anything if and when I find some I'll post it under the relevant posts for that distance.

Since I am getting up at the ass crack of dawn to make my way to SFO for the US National Indoor Championships this little blog will be devoid of updates till I get into the hotel but, fear not both the world games official site and Pantin Carrera site are great sources of info.

Stay tuned for more updates later next week for indoor action!

2009 World Games -- 1000m Semi Finals

Here are the Womens Semi Finals...

Rank	BIB	NOC	Name	Time	Points	Gap	Status	Remark
1	5	TPE	HUANG Yu-ting	1:36.987		0.000
2	29	COL	RAMIREZ Marta Lucia	1:37.172		+0.185
3	8	KOR	KIM Mi Young	1:37.195		+0.208
4	14	GER	BERG Sabine	1:38.625		+1.638
5	13	KOR	KIM Hye Mi	1:38.648		+1.661
6	23	NED	de VRIES Eida L.m.	1:40.696		+3.709
7	17	NED	ROOSENBOOM Bianca	1:46.116		+9.129

Rank	BIB	NOC	Name	Time	Points	Gap	Status	Remark
1	2	NZL	BEGG Nicole	1:35.943		0.000
2	25	TPE	HSU Chiao-jen	1:35.964		+0.021
3	3	KOR	LIM Jin Seon	1:36.200		+0.257
4	21	COL	MENDEZ Briggitte	1:36.441		+0.498
5	12	CHI	SANTIBANEZ TORREZ Carolina	1:37.187		+1.244
6	4	COL	CUERVO Estafania	1:40.456		+4.513
7	15	COL	HOLGUIN Liana	1:45.775		+9.832

And here are the Mens Semi Finals...

Rank	BIB	NOC	Name	Time	Points	Gap	Status	Remark
1	34	TPE	LO Wei-lin	1:30.364		0.000
2	32	COL	MUNOZ Andres Felipe	1:30.586		+0.222
3	36	COL	CIFUENTES Jorge Luis	1:31.142		+0.778
4	59	KOR	KIM Min-ho	1:31.155		+0.791
5	60	VEN	ALVAREZ Daniel	1:31.697		+1.333
6	37	NZL	DOBBIN Kalon	1:31.980		+1.616
7	39	ECU	BOLANOS Jorge	1:32.696		+2.332

Rank	BIB	NOC	Name	Time	Points	Gap	Status	Remark
1	52	COL	CAUSIL Pedro Armando	1:29.660		0.000
2	33	FRA	CONTIN Alexis	1:29.817		+0.157
3	56	TPE	CHANG Chia-hao	1:29.932		+0.272
4	46	ITA	NASELLI Claudio	1:30.124		+0.464
5	38	NED	HUISMAN Sjoerd Adrianus	1:30.384		+0.724
6	43	FRA	PELLOQUIN Nicolas	1:31.411		+1.751
7	40	FRA	GUYADER Yann	1:33.031		+3.371