Team Goldrush Update

Hi Everyone,
This week we trained very hard to prepare for the up coming month but we raced in a local KNSB race in Enschede on our home track. I was not expecting a lot as the whole team is tired but this is what we had from 3 of them:

Sophie Muir proceeded to come very very close to the world cup qualifying times lowering her 500m from 42.38 to 42.23 she also opened faster than ever before with a 11.48 for the first 100m. Her second race was the 1000m where she improved her PB by a whole second from 1.25.01 to 1.24.01 so that was great news.

Josh Lose just worked on his sprint this week hoping to improve his opening in the current weeks for his 5k so her raced the 500m and 1500. Gaining a 40.41 and 1.58.94 so not bad for an endurance guy.

After skating for only 7 weeks and now this week with his new boots on - Daniel Grieg proceeded to cut time of his pb with lowering his 41.0 to a 39.61 with an opening of 10.52. His opening is very promising considering that the ex junior world champ Sjoerd de vries was racing (he is senior now) and his opening was 10.33. Daniel also chose to try out the 1500m in an effort to go under the junior world qualifying time which he did with a 2.01.90 so now Dan has gone under the qualifying times for the 500,1000 and 1500m for junior worlds.

In the next 2 weeks there is a challengers cup in Norway that we hope to attend with Dan and Sophie and then we are still waiting to see if its possible to get Josh to the world cup in Efurt.
On the 25th we go to Tialf-Herenveen to see if we can lower the times again after a rest we will let you know how they go.


Cheers
Desly

Results from Enschede for the 17th of January (Mens results - Ladies results)

P.S. Richard Goerlitz skated in Davos over the past weekend and skated a personal season best 1:59.08, 1500m on the natural ice. This was a huge time drop from his 2:15 the weekend before. Unfortunately he was disqualified in the 5000m and 1000m.

Frank