You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!

There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air.

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

For me, I always think about keeping my upper body relaxed, my hips level, and my right side down on the turn. If I work on nailing those three things at every practice, I hope that by the time I get into a race situation I can stay completely focused on the task at hand, and the rest will happen naturally.

I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.