History is about to be made

The city is full with sportman, you can see them running on the streets...
When I walk I see a lot of different type of T-shirts with speedskating logo's on them....Each one and his city...

The rink is full with skater, no place to sit 

The media are the at ic rink, taking photo's and video of the national team skating practice...The reason for that is that in 2 days, 14/10-17/10, Russia cup will take part at Kolomna ice rink.

Team training

And for the 1st time in history, there will be an Israeli skater on the line as well.
This will be my 1st competion, I only been skating for 1 month today on the ice, I got nice results on training but still not on the level of a good skater, so for now I am surely the underdog for this competion, not to forget it's my 1st ever event on ice, so I guess I will be a bit excited.

Watch out, Israeli skater on ice :)

Getting ready

BUT, being the underdog still got his suprise element, and that is what I'm hoping for :)

Since I got no idea what distance is 100% good for me, I will take part in almost all of them.
I will start with 500m and later on the same day, 1500m as well.

Underdog or not, I'm ready !

And day after (Sat) I will take the 5,000m event too.

My goals are to avoid being last and learning how to act in such event.
I come from inline world, where the pack and the draft has very big power on how you skate, I'm not used to 1-on-1 style like in Long track.

 a good friend once told me : "Competion is the best practice" , I agree.
Good luck to everyone :)