With the Olympics coming up (summer, winter, who cares?) Mom has - from her bed - become smitten and feverish for some "JUST DO IT!" - style skatin' time on the Ice!
She and Edwin had been speedskating before anyone in the world even knew, much less cared about the obscure sport, but thanks to American Gold Medalist Apolo Anton Ohno and his EPIC CRASH (wasn't his fault, tho!) during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, short-track speedskating rapidly gained popularity for its resemblance to Human NASCAR racing...following this crash, a bloodied, tattered, battered Apolo dragged himself across the finish line to claim Silver while an Australian that Edwin met and hung out with in Vancouver 2010 (who was SO far behind the pack that he missed the crash entirely) quietly glided to a Gold Medal he knew never really belonged to him. Well, Apolo got Silver, the Koreans issued death threats (even though they caused the crash from #1 position) and the world fell madly in love with short-track speedskating!
Mom and Edwin's skating coach drove feverishly with no tickets from Bellingham to Salt Lake City to watch and next thing they knew, mom and Edwin were participating in a famous sport!
{TO ENJOY MORE, THEY JUST STARTED UP A U.S. SPEEDSKATING BLOG LISTED TO YOUR RIGHT,
APTLY TITLED "SKATE LEFT"...JUST CHECK BLOGS WE FOLLOW FOR MORE CHILLS, THRILLS, & SPILLS AS THE ATHLETES BEGIN TRAINING FOR THE 2014 WINTER GAMES IN SIBERIA!}
This morning mom pulled out (not her skates, too sick today) but she did pull out Apolo's autobiography given to her by Edwin, entitled Zero Regrets. (They've hung out together a bit, too, Apolo being from Seattle, but that's another story.)
Mom opened her book for inspiration to keep from feeling kinda down and read the inscription by Apolo to her, SQUEEEEE! which is really cool, before her eyes moved down to the inscription written to her from Edwin, in green (because Edwin thinks he's a leprechaun or something):
TO MY CHANA
FOR PUTTING THE WORD
"SLOW IN SPEEDSKATING!"
YOU TRULY DESERVE THIS BOOK.
~EDWIN
(WHEEEEEK!)
Mom opened her book for inspiration to keep from feeling kinda down and read the inscription by Apolo to her, SQUEEEEE! which is really cool, before her eyes moved down to the inscription written to her from Edwin, in green (because Edwin thinks he's a leprechaun or something):
TO MY CHANA
FOR PUTTING THE WORD
"SLOW IN SPEEDSKATING!"
YOU TRULY DESERVE THIS BOOK.
~EDWIN
(WHEEEEEK!)
You're old, but you're not THAT old. Speed skating became an Olympic sport in 1929. Apollo didn't exactly invent it, he just made it more appealing.
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