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.
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I don't ever blink, honestly.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.
I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.
I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.