February 28, 2025 • 33 mins
Dive into the exhilarating world of speed skating with our incredible guest, Trevor Kreplin, a rising star in the sport. Starting his journey at a birthday party, Trevor has transformed from a novice skater to a competitor who recently earned a place on the world team, all while navigating the complexities of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This episode captures the essence of resilience and hard work, showcasing Trevor’s determination to overcome obstacles and achieve greatness.
Throughout our discussion, we explore Trevor’s training regimen that combines both physical strength and endurance, providing insights into the discipline required for competitive skating. He candidly shares his experiences, including the trials of training, competing, and the psychological challenges he faces along the way. Trevor’s story is a powerful reminder that even when the journey gets tough, perseverance can lead to extraordinary achievements.
The camaraderie that fosters a supportive skating community is another focal point we discuss, highlighting how teamwork and mutual encouragement elevate individual potential. Listeners looking for inspiration will find Trevor’s unyielding spirit and aspirations uplifting.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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(00:30):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome to how Do you Skate.
I am your host, Sean Egan, andmy guest today is Trevor Kreplin
, and he is an inline speedskater, so welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
So how old were you when youstarted skating?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I started skating in 2017.
So that is seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So 14 was when I started okay, and did you start
off on inlines, or was it quads,or how did it all start for you
?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
um, I started by going to a birthday party for my
friend at a roller rink, so Ijust started on some regular
inlines just from a walmart orwherever, and then I saw people
there from the speed team ontheir speed skates and that's
what got me into it and then howlong after your your start of
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skating on walmart brand orwhatever it was, that you got
into the speed skates.
Maybe about a year.
There was a little while whereI went to practice and me and my
neighbor, who were goingtogether, actually shared his
pair of speed skates for alittle while, and then I ended
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up getting my own about after ayear.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay and I know for me personally, when you're used
to skating with a boot and youget into the speed skates and
it's a lot shorter cut, how didyou adjust to the lower cut boot
?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I know, whenever I started, the coach of the team
told me that it'd probably beeasier if I started on a hundred
millimeter wheels opposed to110 millimeter wheels.
So I started on a lower bootwhen I got one, but I only had a
hundred millimeter wheels, soit was a little closer to the
ground and a little easiercontrol.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, and that's with the cause.
I have 125 millimeters on myoutdoor skates, so that takes a
little getting used to.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
now do you do indoor and outdoor, or uh, yeah, I'd
say I primarily do outdoor asmuch as I can.
Um, when I skate indoors I kindof skate like I'm outdoors,
usually run the the outskirts ofthe rink, trying to make sure
that whenever I am able to getoutdoors that I'm still
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comfortable skating in thatposition with that technique.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So now I know I've had some pretty nasty falls, so
have you had some pretty goodfalls as you're learning and
getting around the higher speeds?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Indoors I've definitely had my fair share of
falls, uh, outdoors I've onlyever had three.
Okay, one of them was I hit oneof those little tar lines in
the road.
Uh, and that was right after Istarted skating outdoors for
like the first time and I had noidea you couldn't skate on
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those when they were hot.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And I hit one and just fell right over and
probably ruined your wheels ifthey were still hot, huh uh,
yeah, then there was tar allover them.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I had to pull it off.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It wasn't fun yeah, I have not experienced that, but
I don't envy you.
So now to prepare for speedskating.
What is some of the stuff thatyou did to get yourself ready to
start speed skating, and who'syour coach and how did he help
you with all this?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
To do speed skating.
I feel like there's a lot ofthings that are really important
that you have to do that aren'tspeed skating.
I feel like doing a lot of gymworkouts and a lot of bodyweight
workouts, and especially a lotof extended exercise like
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cycling or running or rowing orwhatever makes you happy.
I prefer to cycle.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, running is not fun.
It's like, why run when youhave a perfectly good pair of
skates?
Yeah, yeah.
And when you do outdoor skating, do you train basically
specifically for speed or do youlike go for distance?
Like, what are your advanceswhen you skate?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Him is generally geared more towards the distance
side of things.
So we do a lot of.
I wouldn't say if we're doinglike a mimic of a race, we
wouldn't do anything longer thanmaybe a 10 K at a practice, but
we do plenty of drills that aremore time-based.
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So 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30minutes, and I mean you could do
a lot of skating, especiallyoutdoors, in those times.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, you can cover some pretty good distances.
So now, what are some of likewhen you you're in the gym?
Like, take us through one ofyour like regular weight
workouts.
And like, what do you like todo when you're in the gym?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
um, usually we lift twice a week and that consists a
lot of squats one day anddeadlifts the other day, okay,
and we do those in series ofwe'll squat and then we'll do
box jumps supersetted with it,and then, right after box jumps,
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we'll do ball slams, and rightafter ball slams we'll do a
minute of a various amount ofcore exercises.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, and now when you were in high school, so you
basically started speed skatingwhile you were in high school.
How did that work with going tohigh school?
And I mean, like, how oftenwere you competing each year
Cause I know we have seasons andhow often were you racing
during the season?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So I'm actually homeschooled.
Okay, whenever I was in fourthgrade I switched from public to
homeschool.
So I had a lot of flexibilityon, like, when I had to do my
schoolwork and stuff.
I could kind of merge it aroundwherever I needed to do.
Nice kind of merge it aroundwherever I needed to do.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Nice, and it definitely qualified for PE or
physical education during school.
Right, yeah, for sure, probablyyour best subject?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, most definitely .
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So now, how often do you race, like how many races a
year do you do?
And are you doing more on thedistance side?
Are you doing more of thesprints, the shorter races?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
um, I have always kind of tended to do better in
the longer races.
I've been very consistent inthe thousand meter over the last
year seems like every time Iend up in a thousand meter I do
fairly well, but I prefer thelonger distances like 5K, 10k,
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15k.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, and I know from your profile that you were on
the world team for 2024.
So what was that like and howdid that all come about?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
How did you manage to get on that.
So, uh, you qualify for that atthe outdoor nationals and you
get that by placing top sixoverall in by points in, uh,
senior men.
And then you also have to havea medal to be able to be on the
team.
So even if you get a lot ofpoints but they're all collected
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over fourth place, you couldn'tmake the team because you don't
have a medal.
I had a lot of fifths andfourths and that, and then I
ended up getting a third in the10K points on the road, behind
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Spencer Curtis and Hayden Groves, and that medal was enough to
place me above everyone else toget me onto one of those eight
spots as one of the alternates.
But how it works is if one ofthe members, so it's different
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now.
Now there's, I believe there'ssix or eight spots.
I don't know what they changedit to, but before there was six
spots, I believe, and then twoalternates or four spots.
I think it was six spots andtwo alternates.
Now it's just eight spots, Ibelieve.
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Okay, so I made one of thealternate spots and then got
moved into one of the actualspots and then that qualified me
to be on the team and go toworlds and race and where was
worlds out at and what kind oflike.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What was that whole experience like?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
uh, it was a great experience.
Actually, um, worlds was, uh,it was advertised as rome, okay,
in italy, so rome is very closeto where we were, but we
weren't in rome.
I couldn't I don't reallyremember that the name of the
town.
It was a small town that wewere in, but it was.
(10:19):
It was close to rome, maybelike an hour out from Rome.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, and then now your world team coach.
Is that a lot different fromyour home team coach?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, the world team coaches were more so there to
just make sure that if you hadany questions, that they could
help answer them.
I feel like if you're on theworld team, you know what you
need to do to get ready for acompetition already, so you
don't need a coach that has notlike interacted with you before
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to try and change what you'redoing right before like the
biggest competition of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, definitely.
So it's kind of funny because,with you being my youngest
person ever on the show so far,it's like when I talk to like a
lot of the older skaters they'vebeen through all these
different experiences and lifethings and it's like you haven't
even gotten that far yet whereyou've had that.
Have you ever had the mentalitythat you just want to quit and
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give up, or have you not reachedthat point yet?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I definitely have.
I have a lot of medicalconditions that make it very
hard to do sports.
So definitely, whenever thoseget bad, everything just kind of
like comes down on me and it'slike you know, I'm not meant to
do this, maybe, and all that,but every time I find a way to
get through it and then I end upcoming out stronger than I was
(11:51):
so definitely that doing thespeed skating because you could
have done.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
There's so many different sports that people can
choose.
Do you find that the speedskating helps with your
conditions or it um bothers itsometimes?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
so I have a condition called postural orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome, or it'sbetter known as pots it's not
very common, uh, but the peoplethat it is in is on a very large
spectrum of severity.
People that it is in is on avery large spectrum of severity.
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I'm on the much higher end ofthat spectrum.
So what it essentially does ismy blood goes down and it
doesn't come back up.
Okay, so if I stand up, I getreally dizzy.
If I jump, I get really dizzy.
If I work out too long, I getreally dizzy.
And the only way to solve thatis to either stop or just be
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really strong all the time,because the stronger my legs are
, the better of a of a force Ihave to drive blood back up into
my upper body.
Yeah, so skating definitelyhelps strengthen my legs enough
to help keep that blood movingcorrectly.
So if I take off time a lot,then I'll feel bad.
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Okay, definitely helpsstrengthen my legs enough to
help keep that blood movingcorrectly.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So if I take off time a lot, then I'll feel bad okay,
and I know from havingcardiovascular issues that
having a strong heart also helpsa lot with that too, and and
get especially getting thecirculation going through and
stuff.
So how often do would you callit an episode then?
So how often do would you callit an episode then, like, how
often do you have an episode, isit?
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Is it like a?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Many times a day.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, so it's a constant thing that you're
dealing with.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, Usually anytime I I do most things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, and yet you keep pushing through it and all
that kind of stuff.
So now, when you're racing, howdoes that affect you when
you're racing, or does it notaffect you while you're racing?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It definitely does.
Um, especially if it's, on thatparticular day worse than other
days.
Yeah, I haven't figuredeverything out with what makes
it worse and better all the time, everything out with what makes
it worse and better all thetime.
But some days are a littleworse than others and when I'm
racing, usually I've had it, youknow, long enough to kind of
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figure out where my boundariesare with it, because of the
blood loss in my upper body.
That also means my brain losesblood.
So I lose things like sight andhearing and, uh, eventually, my
balance, and then I'm just kindof on the ground or whatever.
So, um, when I race, generallyit's more of a.
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I need to just make sure thatI'm focused on my racing and
then, if it gets bad, you know,I do as much as I can, but
that's really all you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Exactly, and I'm sure you've been around the people
that you know with us.
We have different set ofcircumstances and you're an
incredibly strong person toactually get out there and race
and still fight your way throughit, where I'm sure you know
people that they get a headacheand they can't do something or
they may always have excuses ofwhy they can't do something.
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Then there's a young man likeyourself who's pushing through
it and basically being a rolemodel or an influence on people
to, hey, I've got this going on,what's your excuse?
So it's definitely one of thosethings.
And to go through that andactually make the world team,
that's impressive.
Right there, I mean making theworld team when you're
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completely healthy and don'thave any issues is impressive.
But to do it when you'redealing with obstacles, I guess
would be the best word to use.
But you, you are veryimpressive to me.
I have to give you credit forthat.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, I know a long time ago.
Whenever my cause you get, youget pots when you're born.
It's something that's passeddown into you, but it doesn't
get activated until you have,like a's something that's passed
down into you okay but, itdoesn't get activated until you
have, like, a severe illness andthen it gets turned on, usually
around the ages of 14 or 15 orolder.
Okay, so whenever I got reallysick and I got it, those first
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few years were also the firstfew years I started skating,
yeah, and I remember that I'd goto practice and I do like one
drill, half a drill, and I wouldjust have to go lay down
because I couldn't see, Icouldn't hear, I couldn't walk,
and I would come home all thetime and I'd be saying, like you
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know, I don't, I don't know ifI can do any of this stuff
anymore.
And I remember my parents toldme you, you know everybody has
problems, you just can't seethem.
So you just got to go out thereand you do what you can and you
got to know everyone else outthere is doing what they can,
because everybody has an issue,even if you can't see it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, exactly.
So your parents have beenpretty supportive of your
journey through skating thenyeah, have been pretty
supportive of your journeythrough skating then yeah.
So yeah, it's kind of cool whenyou do that, because I actually
started skating back when I was17, 18.
It was like 1988.
I forget how old I was backthen.
So it's been a while, but it'simpressive to see like this new
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generation coming up and it'sawesome.
So when the pandemic hit, whathappened during the pandemic as
far as the skating goes, wereyou still training or was it
kind of doing it on your own orhow did that go through the
pandemic?
Cause I know we've seen aresurgence of skating during the
pandemic, but if you're alreadycompeting, like, what was the,
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what was the process during thattime?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
During the pandemic.
I would definitely say it wasvery much like a confusing time,
because it was like, is thisreally a serious thing?
Like should I really just bestaying home and not going
anywhere to try and be safe?
And we definitely did that fora while.
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And then it just got to thepoint where it's like we're
really just sitting around now,yeah, and I started riding my
bike a lot and then I would goskate outside, uh, down bike
trails or school tracks for awhile.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, and so you kept it up and everything, because
now could.
If you would have gotten a badcase of COVID, could that have
affected your POTS?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, if I get sick, it's kind of like a game over
card.
Everything's extremelydifficult when I'm sick because
my body doesn't move blood rightand blood is what carries the
white blood cells to kill offinfections.
Yeah, I can be when I get sick.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm sick for a really long time, sometimes months at
a time and was it because whenyou got that, is that why, with
the switch to homeschooling?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
uh, no, I just I had a lot of learning disabilities,
and still do, and, uh, theschool just wasn't able to
accommodate them for me and Iwas, I was struggling
unnecessarily in school so now,what are your future plans as
far as skating goes?
um, I want to be able to medalat worlds.
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That's a big goal, I feel likewith with everything I have
going on in my own life, I feellike that's something I can do
and it's something that I feellike I can achieve if I, if I
get myself to work hard enoughto achieve it yeah, now I know
we've talked about the issuesyou've gone through.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
How has skating changed your life?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, without skating, I feel like I would
definitely be living a verydifferent life.
I've definitely sacrificed alot of opportunities for skating
.
I've given up a lot of timewith friends, a lot of time with
family, a lot of uh, you knowdifferent job opportunities.
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I could have done, uh, stillcould get into different jobs,
but it gets harder to do as youget older, yeah, um, and there's
just a lot of opportunities.
I feel like you sacrifice goinginto a sport like this and
trying to be serious, and it'sjust something that you got to
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do it because you love to do itand not do it because you feel
like you have to, because evenif I get to whatever age, I feel
like I'm, I'm going to be doneat.
Even if I don't achieve like amedal at worlds or make the team
or whatever it is, I'll knowthat I, that I did my best and I
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, I went out there and I did allthat I could do and I'm happy
with that because I like skatingthat's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now the important question is is what is your
setup like?
What's your boot of choice?
Wheels, bearings, frame like?
What's your skate setup?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
um, I have very messed up feet, so my feet don't
like most things, and, um, Iended up getting these boots
called macargos.
They're, uh, based in argentina, and those boots have kind of
been like a miracle to me.
They're the only boots my feethave not just rejected
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completely and I can skate onthem endlessly with no pain
anywhere, and, uh, they're great.
Um, I have frames from powerslide.
I, really, I really do liketheir frames.
Uh, I, I'm currently skating ontheir carbon one called the
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acel.
I kind of bounce around frames.
I have been been skating on thenew swings on wings, uh,
magnesium frame, okay, um, Igenerally lean towards TLTF
wheels, just cause they'realways seem to be the fastest
for me.
Oh, there's a lot of peoplethat really like junks, but for
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me, uh, for me, tltf is is justthe option that that think is is
best, especially as a distanceoriented skater.
Um, and then bearings uh,there's these bearings that, uh,
the swings brand makes forpowerslide.
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Um, they're ceramic and they'rereally, really great.
They're the best bearings I'veever had.
They just, they roll so freeand everything right out of the
right out of the casing, okay,I've been using those ever since
I got my hands on them.
Uh, before that I had the boneceramics, which are also really
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great.
They're just not quite asprecise feeling as those swings
ones that I got.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And you properly maintain your bearings.
Very often, what's thelubrication you use, what's your
lubrication of choice for speed?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I kind of work around , I'm always trying a different
one because I feel there'salways something different about
each of them and I haven'tquite figured out which one I
like the best.
Usually the, the bone speedcream.
I'll put maybe a drop, half adrop, in each.
Bearing of that, that'sprobably the one that I've used
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the most, just because it'seasily accessible okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, I've noticed that there's several different
kinds and I use monkey lube toclean my bearings, so I found
that's really cool because itcleans and lubricates, but I add
the extra lubrication and I sawthat Bont has a new lubrication
oil.
And also I've been curiousabout the roller roller blade
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dry cream.
Have you tried that one ever?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
no, I'm definitely open to try and all that kind of
stuff, but it's, it's justsomething I haven't got around
to yeah, it's, it's me gettingback into it over the last year
or so.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's uh trying to figure out.
It's like you got to put ittogether yourself.
Now, who is your biggestinfluence for skating, or just
biggest?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
influence in general.
There's a lot of people that Ireally kind of look at when I'm
skating or watch on social mediaand really observe.
Bart Swings is definitely a bigone.
Just with his technique beingso consistent and and powerful
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is is hard to to not want tofollow him.
Then there's also, uh, a cobomantilla from columbia.
He just he skates verydifferent from Bart but with a
lot of power and speed.
Also, okay, I'd say fromAmerica.
I definitely I like the waythat the boy on our team, caleb
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Adams, his technique is reallygood.
There you are.
Oh, did it cut out?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, it completely froze and then cut out.
So you were saying about theperson on your team.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, Caleb Adams.
He's one of the younger boys onour team, but his form is just
amazing and he's definitelysomeone that I also watch and
try and imitate.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Has he been skating longer than you, or about the
same?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
About the same.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Okay, and what is your team atmosphere like?
What's like, as they say, inpro wrestling, what's like the
locker room Like do you guys geta lot, everybody get along and
you got that team unity, or isthere, I know, back in the 90s
and stuff there was alwaysjealousy and egos and is it
pretty, uh, pretty, cohesiveunit or I'd say I'd say our team
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is definitely more cohesive,mainly on the boy's side.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I feel like a lot of the girls kind of poke at each
other because but that's justsomething, that that happens
especially when they're youngand teenagers and stuff too.
So now I mean, you know, theboys are always, uh always kind
of like teasing each other, likeyou know, pushing at each other
whenever one person beatsanother.
(26:55):
That doesn't normally and it'slike you know what happened and
all that kind of stuff.
But it's all in good faith,it's never anything ill-willed.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, trying to push, because if you guys can push
each other to make each otherbetter, that's what's important,
not backstabbing and that kindof stuff.
So I agree with you.
And now your coach.
How long has your coach been aspeed skater?
Because I know, or do you havecoaches?
Do you have more than one coach, or is it just one coach, or I
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have two.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Uh, I have tom sidor and, uh, dean hole.
Dean hole is more of the maincoach.
He's the one that does a lot ofthe traveling with us and he's
the main guy at the practicethat tells us you know what to
do, what we need to be doing,all the off skate and lifting
and stuff.
That's all him.
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And then Tom's kind of thesecond guy in charge, so he
makes sure like all the drillsare run smoothly and
everything's timed out and thelaps are counted and all the
timing is done right.
And then when Dean's notavailable, tom just takes over
everything and make sure wealways have a good practice
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going on.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Nice.
Now, since you're youngyourself and I know a lot of
people find their niche inskating, what is some advice you
have to people that want to getinto speed skating or up and
coming?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I feel like it's really easy to focus on a lot of
a lot of things in skatingbecause there's just so much.
It's like you can get stronger,you can get better endurance,
you can uh be, you know allthese things.
But I feel like the big thingis you just gotta skate.
You just gotta skate.
A lot like just go to sessions,just go to practice and do a
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ton of laps.
Just know, the more you skate,the better you're going to get.
There's nothing you can do toexpedite that process.
There's no cheat codes.
If you don't skate, you're notgoing to get better at skating.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's some of the best advice right there.
The one question is how do Iget better at something?
Keep doing it.
So now how can my listenersfollow you and your skating
exploits?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I definitely say you're probably going to get the
same content on Facebook andInstagram.
That's about all I'm going tobe on.
I have a Strava.
It's all under my name, TrevorKreplin.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Occasionally I'll put stuff from practices and that
on YouTube.
Same name, Trevor Kreplin, butdefinitely just Instagram and
Facebook are probably your bestbets.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Awesome.
Well, I appreciate you comingon today and talking about your
journey.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
I really like being able totalk about everything that's
going to help other people.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Definitely Well, thank you, yep, thank you, you,
thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome to how Do you Skate.
I am your host, Sean Egan, andmy guest today is Trevor Kreplin
, and he is an inline speedskater, so welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
So how old were you when youstarted skating?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I started skating in 2017.
So that is seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So 14 was when I started okay, and did you start
off on inlines, or was it quads,or how did it all start for you
?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
um, I started by going to a birthday party for my
friend at a roller rink, so Ijust started on some regular
inlines just from a walmart orwherever, and then I saw people
there from the speed team ontheir speed skates and that's
what got me into it and then howlong after your your start of
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skating on walmart brand orwhatever it was, that you got
into the speed skates.
Maybe about a year.
There was a little while whereI went to practice and me and my
neighbor, who were goingtogether, actually shared his
pair of speed skates for alittle while, and then I ended
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up getting my own about after ayear.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay and I know for me personally, when you're used
to skating with a boot and youget into the speed skates and
it's a lot shorter cut, how didyou adjust to the lower cut boot
?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I know, whenever I started, the coach of the team
told me that it'd probably beeasier if I started on a hundred
millimeter wheels opposed to110 millimeter wheels.
So I started on a lower bootwhen I got one, but I only had a
hundred millimeter wheels, soit was a little closer to the
ground and a little easiercontrol.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Okay, and that's with the cause.
I have 125 millimeters on myoutdoor skates, so that takes a
little getting used to.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
now do you do indoor and outdoor, or uh, yeah, I'd
say I primarily do outdoor asmuch as I can.
Um, when I skate indoors I kindof skate like I'm outdoors,
usually run the the outskirts ofthe rink, trying to make sure
that whenever I am able to getoutdoors that I'm still
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comfortable skating in thatposition with that technique.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So now I know I've had some pretty nasty falls, so
have you had some pretty goodfalls as you're learning and
getting around the higher speeds?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Indoors I've definitely had my fair share of
falls, uh, outdoors I've onlyever had three.
Okay, one of them was I hit oneof those little tar lines in
the road.
Uh, and that was right after Istarted skating outdoors for
like the first time and I had noidea you couldn't skate on
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those when they were hot.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And I hit one and just fell right over and
probably ruined your wheels ifthey were still hot, huh uh,
yeah, then there was tar allover them.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I had to pull it off.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It wasn't fun yeah, I have not experienced that, but
I don't envy you.
So now to prepare for speedskating.
What is some of the stuff thatyou did to get yourself ready to
start speed skating, and who'syour coach and how did he help
you with all this?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
To do speed skating.
I feel like there's a lot ofthings that are really important
that you have to do that aren'tspeed skating.
I feel like doing a lot of gymworkouts and a lot of bodyweight
workouts, and especially a lotof extended exercise like
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cycling or running or rowing orwhatever makes you happy.
I prefer to cycle.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, running is not fun.
It's like, why run when youhave a perfectly good pair of
skates?
Yeah, yeah.
And when you do outdoor skating, do you train basically
specifically for speed or do youlike go for distance?
Like, what are your advanceswhen you skate?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Him is generally geared more towards the distance
side of things.
So we do a lot of.
I wouldn't say if we're doinglike a mimic of a race, we
wouldn't do anything longer thanmaybe a 10 K at a practice, but
we do plenty of drills that aremore time-based.
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So 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30minutes, and I mean you could do
a lot of skating, especiallyoutdoors, in those times.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, you can cover some pretty good distances.
So now, what are some of likewhen you you're in the gym?
Like, take us through one ofyour like regular weight
workouts.
And like, what do you like todo when you're in the gym?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
um, usually we lift twice a week and that consists a
lot of squats one day anddeadlifts the other day, okay,
and we do those in series ofwe'll squat and then we'll do
box jumps supersetted with it,and then, right after box jumps,
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we'll do ball slams, and rightafter ball slams we'll do a
minute of a various amount ofcore exercises.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, and now when you were in high school, so you
basically started speed skatingwhile you were in high school.
How did that work with going tohigh school?
And I mean, like, how oftenwere you competing each year
Cause I know we have seasons andhow often were you racing
during the season?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
So I'm actually homeschooled.
Okay, whenever I was in fourthgrade I switched from public to
homeschool.
So I had a lot of flexibilityon, like, when I had to do my
schoolwork and stuff.
I could kind of merge it aroundwherever I needed to do.
Nice kind of merge it aroundwherever I needed to do.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Nice, and it definitely qualified for PE or
physical education during school.
Right, yeah, for sure, probablyyour best subject?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, most definitely .
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So now, how often do you race, like how many races a
year do you do?
And are you doing more on thedistance side?
Are you doing more of thesprints, the shorter races?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
um, I have always kind of tended to do better in
the longer races.
I've been very consistent inthe thousand meter over the last
year seems like every time Iend up in a thousand meter I do
fairly well, but I prefer thelonger distances like 5K, 10k,
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15k.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, and I know from your profile that you were on
the world team for 2024.
So what was that like and howdid that all come about?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
How did you manage to get on that.
So, uh, you qualify for that atthe outdoor nationals and you
get that by placing top sixoverall in by points in, uh,
senior men.
And then you also have to havea medal to be able to be on the
team.
So even if you get a lot ofpoints but they're all collected
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over fourth place, you couldn'tmake the team because you don't
have a medal.
I had a lot of fifths andfourths and that, and then I
ended up getting a third in the10K points on the road, behind
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Spencer Curtis and Hayden Groves, and that medal was enough to
place me above everyone else toget me onto one of those eight
spots as one of the alternates.
But how it works is if one ofthe members, so it's different
(09:15):
now.
Now there's, I believe there'ssix or eight spots.
I don't know what they changedit to, but before there was six
spots, I believe, and then twoalternates or four spots.
I think it was six spots andtwo alternates.
Now it's just eight spots, Ibelieve.
(09:35):
Okay, so I made one of thealternate spots and then got
moved into one of the actualspots and then that qualified me
to be on the team and go toworlds and race and where was
worlds out at and what kind oflike.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
What was that whole experience like?
Speaker 3 (09:57):
uh, it was a great experience.
Actually, um, worlds was, uh,it was advertised as rome, okay,
in italy, so rome is very closeto where we were, but we
weren't in rome.
I couldn't I don't reallyremember that the name of the
town.
It was a small town that wewere in, but it was.
(10:19):
It was close to rome, maybelike an hour out from Rome.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, and then now your world team coach.
Is that a lot different fromyour home team coach?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, the world team coaches were more so there to
just make sure that if you hadany questions, that they could
help answer them.
I feel like if you're on theworld team, you know what you
need to do to get ready for acompetition already, so you
don't need a coach that has notlike interacted with you before
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to try and change what you'redoing right before like the
biggest competition of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, definitely.
So it's kind of funny because,with you being my youngest
person ever on the show so far,it's like when I talk to like a
lot of the older skaters they'vebeen through all these
different experiences and lifethings and it's like you haven't
even gotten that far yet whereyou've had that.
Have you ever had the mentalitythat you just want to quit and
(11:23):
give up, or have you not reachedthat point yet?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I definitely have.
I have a lot of medicalconditions that make it very
hard to do sports.
So definitely, whenever thoseget bad, everything just kind of
like comes down on me and it'slike you know, I'm not meant to
do this, maybe, and all that,but every time I find a way to
get through it and then I end upcoming out stronger than I was
(11:51):
so definitely that doing thespeed skating because you could
have done.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
There's so many different sports that people can
choose.
Do you find that the speedskating helps with your
conditions or it um bothers itsometimes?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
so I have a condition called postural orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome, or it'sbetter known as pots it's not
very common, uh, but the peoplethat it is in is on a very large
spectrum of severity.
People that it is in is on avery large spectrum of severity.
(12:28):
I'm on the much higher end ofthat spectrum.
So what it essentially does ismy blood goes down and it
doesn't come back up.
Okay, so if I stand up, I getreally dizzy.
If I jump, I get really dizzy.
If I work out too long, I getreally dizzy.
And the only way to solve thatis to either stop or just be
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really strong all the time,because the stronger my legs are
, the better of a of a force Ihave to drive blood back up into
my upper body.
Yeah, so skating definitelyhelps strengthen my legs enough
to help keep that blood movingcorrectly.
So if I take off time a lot,then I'll feel bad.
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Okay, definitely helpsstrengthen my legs enough to
help keep that blood movingcorrectly.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So if I take off time a lot, then I'll feel bad okay,
and I know from havingcardiovascular issues that
having a strong heart also helpsa lot with that too, and and
get especially getting thecirculation going through and
stuff.
So how often do would you callit an episode then?
So how often do would you callit an episode then, like, how
often do you have an episode, isit?
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Is it like a?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Many times a day.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, so it's a constant thing that you're
dealing with.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, Usually anytime I I do most things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Okay, and yet you keep pushing through it and all
that kind of stuff.
So now, when you're racing, howdoes that affect you when
you're racing, or does it notaffect you while you're racing?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It definitely does.
Um, especially if it's, on thatparticular day worse than other
days.
Yeah, I haven't figuredeverything out with what makes
it worse and better all the time, everything out with what makes
it worse and better all thetime.
But some days are a littleworse than others and when I'm
racing, usually I've had it, youknow, long enough to kind of
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figure out where my boundariesare with it, because of the
blood loss in my upper body.
That also means my brain losesblood.
So I lose things like sight andhearing and, uh, eventually, my
balance, and then I'm just kindof on the ground or whatever.
So, um, when I race, generallyit's more of a.
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I need to just make sure thatI'm focused on my racing and
then, if it gets bad, you know,I do as much as I can, but
that's really all you can do.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Exactly, and I'm sure you've been around the people
that you know with us.
We have different set ofcircumstances and you're an
incredibly strong person toactually get out there and race
and still fight your way throughit, where I'm sure you know
people that they get a headacheand they can't do something or
they may always have excuses ofwhy they can't do something.
(15:26):
Then there's a young man likeyourself who's pushing through
it and basically being a rolemodel or an influence on people
to, hey, I've got this going on,what's your excuse?
So it's definitely one of thosethings.
And to go through that andactually make the world team,
that's impressive.
Right there, I mean making theworld team when you're
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completely healthy and don'thave any issues is impressive.
But to do it when you'redealing with obstacles, I guess
would be the best word to use.
But you, you are veryimpressive to me.
I have to give you credit forthat.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, I know a long time ago.
Whenever my cause you get, youget pots when you're born.
It's something that's passeddown into you, but it doesn't
get activated until you have,like a's something that's passed
down into you okay but, itdoesn't get activated until you
have, like, a severe illness andthen it gets turned on, usually
around the ages of 14 or 15 orolder.
Okay, so whenever I got reallysick and I got it, those first
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few years were also the firstfew years I started skating,
yeah, and I remember that I'd goto practice and I do like one
drill, half a drill, and I wouldjust have to go lay down
because I couldn't see, Icouldn't hear, I couldn't walk,
and I would come home all thetime and I'd be saying, like you
(16:46):
know, I don't, I don't know ifI can do any of this stuff
anymore.
And I remember my parents toldme you, you know everybody has
problems, you just can't seethem.
So you just got to go out thereand you do what you can and you
got to know everyone else outthere is doing what they can,
because everybody has an issue,even if you can't see it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, exactly.
So your parents have beenpretty supportive of your
journey through skating thenyeah, have been pretty
supportive of your journeythrough skating then yeah.
So yeah, it's kind of cool whenyou do that, because I actually
started skating back when I was17, 18.
It was like 1988.
I forget how old I was backthen.
So it's been a while, but it'simpressive to see like this new
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generation coming up and it'sawesome.
So when the pandemic hit, whathappened during the pandemic as
far as the skating goes, wereyou still training or was it
kind of doing it on your own orhow did that go through the
pandemic?
Cause I know we've seen aresurgence of skating during the
pandemic, but if you're alreadycompeting, like, what was the,
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what was the process during thattime?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
During the pandemic.
I would definitely say it wasvery much like a confusing time,
because it was like, is thisreally a serious thing?
Like should I really just bestaying home and not going
anywhere to try and be safe?
And we definitely did that fora while.
(18:14):
And then it just got to thepoint where it's like we're
really just sitting around now,yeah, and I started riding my
bike a lot and then I would goskate outside, uh, down bike
trails or school tracks for awhile.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, and so you kept it up and everything, because
now could.
If you would have gotten a badcase of COVID, could that have
affected your POTS?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, if I get sick, it's kind of like a game over
card.
Everything's extremelydifficult when I'm sick because
my body doesn't move blood rightand blood is what carries the
white blood cells to kill offinfections.
Yeah, I can be when I get sick.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm sick for a really long time, sometimes months at
a time and was it because whenyou got that, is that why, with
the switch to homeschooling?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
uh, no, I just I had a lot of learning disabilities,
and still do, and, uh, theschool just wasn't able to
accommodate them for me and Iwas, I was struggling
unnecessarily in school so now,what are your future plans as
far as skating goes?
um, I want to be able to medalat worlds.
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That's a big goal, I feel likewith with everything I have
going on in my own life, I feellike that's something I can do
and it's something that I feellike I can achieve if I, if I
get myself to work hard enoughto achieve it yeah, now I know
we've talked about the issuesyou've gone through.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
How has skating changed your life?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I mean, without skating, I feel like I would
definitely be living a verydifferent life.
I've definitely sacrificed alot of opportunities for skating
.
I've given up a lot of timewith friends, a lot of time with
family, a lot of uh, you knowdifferent job opportunities.
(20:25):
I could have done, uh, stillcould get into different jobs,
but it gets harder to do as youget older, yeah, um, and there's
just a lot of opportunities.
I feel like you sacrifice goinginto a sport like this and
trying to be serious, and it'sjust something that you got to
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do it because you love to do itand not do it because you feel
like you have to, because evenif I get to whatever age, I feel
like I'm, I'm going to be doneat.
Even if I don't achieve like amedal at worlds or make the team
or whatever it is, I'll knowthat I, that I did my best and I
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, I went out there and I did allthat I could do and I'm happy
with that because I like skatingthat's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Now the important question is is what is your
setup like?
What's your boot of choice?
Wheels, bearings, frame like?
What's your skate setup?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
um, I have very messed up feet, so my feet don't
like most things, and, um, Iended up getting these boots
called macargos.
They're, uh, based in argentina, and those boots have kind of
been like a miracle to me.
They're the only boots my feethave not just rejected
(21:47):
completely and I can skate onthem endlessly with no pain
anywhere, and, uh, they're great.
Um, I have frames from powerslide.
I, really, I really do liketheir frames.
Uh, I, I'm currently skating ontheir carbon one called the
(22:09):
acel.
I kind of bounce around frames.
I have been been skating on thenew swings on wings, uh,
magnesium frame, okay, um, Igenerally lean towards TLTF
wheels, just cause they'realways seem to be the fastest
for me.
Oh, there's a lot of peoplethat really like junks, but for
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me, uh, for me, tltf is is justthe option that that think is is
best, especially as a distanceoriented skater.
Um, and then bearings uh,there's these bearings that, uh,
the swings brand makes forpowerslide.
(22:50):
Um, they're ceramic and they'rereally, really great.
They're the best bearings I'veever had.
They just, they roll so freeand everything right out of the
right out of the casing, okay,I've been using those ever since
I got my hands on them.
Uh, before that I had the boneceramics, which are also really
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great.
They're just not quite asprecise feeling as those swings
ones that I got.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And you properly maintain your bearings.
Very often, what's thelubrication you use, what's your
lubrication of choice for speed?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I kind of work around , I'm always trying a different
one because I feel there'salways something different about
each of them and I haven'tquite figured out which one I
like the best.
Usually the, the bone speedcream.
I'll put maybe a drop, half adrop, in each.
Bearing of that, that'sprobably the one that I've used
(23:49):
the most, just because it'seasily accessible okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, I've noticed that there's several different
kinds and I use monkey lube toclean my bearings, so I found
that's really cool because itcleans and lubricates, but I add
the extra lubrication and I sawthat Bont has a new lubrication
oil.
And also I've been curiousabout the roller roller blade
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dry cream.
Have you tried that one ever?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
no, I'm definitely open to try and all that kind of
stuff, but it's, it's justsomething I haven't got around
to yeah, it's, it's me gettingback into it over the last year
or so.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
It's uh trying to figure out.
It's like you got to put ittogether yourself.
Now, who is your biggestinfluence for skating, or just
biggest?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
influence in general.
There's a lot of people that Ireally kind of look at when I'm
skating or watch on social mediaand really observe.
Bart Swings is definitely a bigone.
Just with his technique beingso consistent and and powerful
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is is hard to to not want tofollow him.
Then there's also, uh, a cobomantilla from columbia.
He just he skates verydifferent from Bart but with a
lot of power and speed.
Also, okay, I'd say fromAmerica.
I definitely I like the waythat the boy on our team, caleb
(25:31):
Adams, his technique is reallygood.
There you are.
Oh, did it cut out?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, it completely froze and then cut out.
So you were saying about theperson on your team.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh, Caleb Adams.
He's one of the younger boys onour team, but his form is just
amazing and he's definitelysomeone that I also watch and
try and imitate.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Has he been skating longer than you, or about the
same?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
About the same.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Okay, and what is your team atmosphere like?
What's like, as they say, inpro wrestling, what's like the
locker room Like do you guys geta lot, everybody get along and
you got that team unity, or isthere, I know, back in the 90s
and stuff there was alwaysjealousy and egos and is it
pretty, uh, pretty, cohesiveunit or I'd say I'd say our team
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is definitely more cohesive,mainly on the boy's side.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I feel like a lot of the girls kind of poke at each
other because but that's justsomething, that that happens
especially when they're youngand teenagers and stuff too.
So now I mean, you know, theboys are always, uh always kind
of like teasing each other, likeyou know, pushing at each other
whenever one person beatsanother.
(26:55):
That doesn't normally and it'slike you know what happened and
all that kind of stuff.
But it's all in good faith,it's never anything ill-willed.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, trying to push, because if you guys can push
each other to make each otherbetter, that's what's important,
not backstabbing and that kindof stuff.
So I agree with you.
And now your coach.
How long has your coach been aspeed skater?
Because I know, or do you havecoaches?
Do you have more than one coach, or is it just one coach, or I
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have two.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Uh, I have tom sidor and, uh, dean hole.
Dean hole is more of the maincoach.
He's the one that does a lot ofthe traveling with us and he's
the main guy at the practicethat tells us you know what to
do, what we need to be doing,all the off skate and lifting
and stuff.
That's all him.
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And then Tom's kind of thesecond guy in charge, so he
makes sure like all the drillsare run smoothly and
everything's timed out and thelaps are counted and all the
timing is done right.
And then when Dean's notavailable, tom just takes over
everything and make sure wealways have a good practice
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going on.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Nice.
Now, since you're youngyourself and I know a lot of
people find their niche inskating, what is some advice you
have to people that want to getinto speed skating or up and
coming?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I feel like it's really easy to focus on a lot of
a lot of things in skatingbecause there's just so much.
It's like you can get stronger,you can get better endurance,
you can uh be, you know allthese things.
But I feel like the big thingis you just gotta skate.
You just gotta skate.
A lot like just go to sessions,just go to practice and do a
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ton of laps.
Just know, the more you skate,the better you're going to get.
There's nothing you can do toexpedite that process.
There's no cheat codes.
If you don't skate, you're notgoing to get better at skating.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
That's some of the best advice right there.
The one question is how do Iget better at something?
Keep doing it.
So now how can my listenersfollow you and your skating
exploits?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I definitely say you're probably going to get the
same content on Facebook andInstagram.
That's about all I'm going tobe on.
I have a Strava.
It's all under my name, TrevorKreplin.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Occasionally I'll put stuff from practices and that
on YouTube.
Same name, Trevor Kreplin, butdefinitely just Instagram and
Facebook are probably your bestbets.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Awesome.
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