"Being here," Weinstein says, "allows me to can get away from skating if I need to. If I have a good or bad race, I don't let it get to me, either way. I just do my best in the next one."
However, since Weinstein first laced up a pair of skates at age two, his good days have far outnumbered his bad ones. The Brookline native and Holworthy resident started his days in the rink as a hockey player.
Recalling his hockey days, Weinstein says, "I was always a better skater than stick-handler."
At the age of eight, his parents saw an article about local speedskating in the Boston Globe. Within a year, Weinstein was skating with the Bay State Speedskating Club.
"For the first year, I went once a week and used hockey skates."
However the learning curve was unusually steep for Weinstein. He started a training program at age 12. At age 14, he won the 600 meter, 800 meter, and 1000 meter races at the Junior National Long Track Championships.
In 1994, he became the youngest person to skate in the Olympic trials.
"I got my butt kicked," Weinstein says. "I didn't get out of the time trial. From then until 1998, I knew what I needed to do."
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