I say a little prayer as I wait for the gun to go off. “Please, god, don’t let her lap me in a four and a half lap race, because I don’t know if I can handle that.”
The seconds before a race stepped off in short track speedskating always felt like forever to me, and too short at the same time. I’d step on the ice, and take my skate guards off, then drift…
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