Speed+Skating

**//__Speed Skating__//** -**//__Women and Men__//**

Women can get up to 35 miles per hour which (56 kilometers). The skates that they wear are made so that they can go fast so that they can go down hills and near mountions. The blade of the skate is flat and it is only 14 to 18 inches which is (36 to 45 centimeters) 1\32 inches (0.8 millimeter). Speed Skating can be on ice ans groud.

Men and women practice in speed track skating. There are Skaters in the outer lane wear a red armband. Skaters on the inner lane wear a white armband. The armbands dertminte if the skater is inner or outer. The glasses give protection to the skater’s eyes. The suit makes the skater go faster. Clap skates aren’t attached at the heel and are about 42-46 cm. long. There are 15 events in the winter speed track skating.