Now, my main event was the 500 meters, and that's the shortest of all the speedskating events.

现在，我的主要项目是 500 米，这是所有速滑项目中最短的。

And Brittany had preceded me in switching from roller skating to ice speedskating by a few years and, by this time, she was a longtime veteran on the U.S. Speedskating Team.

布列塔尼 (Brittany) 比我早几年从轮滑转向速滑，此时， 她已经是美国速滑队的老将了。