With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.