More On Gross Gerau: In case you haven’t had enough on Gross Gerau in the last couple of days, Brampton skater Aaron Arndt wrote about his experiences in the lead group in Quick Post – Gross Gerau. Pretty good stuff for us mortals to read.
If pictures of Gross Gerau is what you seek, then you [...]
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Gross Gereau Continues: The 2nd day of racing action at Gross Gerau is currently under way. Click here for the results- all of yesterday’s results (including corrected links to the 300’s) are up. Harriston’s Paisley Perrie came through with a strong 8th, 7th, and 9th place finishes out of 50-some odd skaters in the Schuler [...]
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Gross Gereau Results Coming In: Good morning (it’s morning for me)- I wasn’t going to update my website today because I have a heck of a lot of training to do, but I’ve got a bit at time and there’s some good racing action going on this weekend in Gross Gereau Germany. I was pleasantly [...]
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WIC Press: Rollerblade has posted an article called World Inline Cup Press for 2007 written by Tanya Dobbin.
Virgilio Ochoa Abadia Interview: Patinaje De Velocidad has posted an interview with Virgilio Ochoa Abadia. If you can’t read Spanish, run the article through Babel Fish. It will help you gain some more perspective on the central-American race [...]
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From Toronto & Harriston To Europe: Aaron Arndt, Alex Perrie, and Paisley Perrie are all headed to Europe today from Toronto. I don’t think Aaron is going with the Perries, but they will all be at Gros Gereau in Germany for the big multi-day multi-track race. I might be getting some updates from Germany over [...]
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It’s A Struggle To Survive: Andrew Love posted an entry that I really like; it’s called Liam and John. Andrew writes ‘speedskaters, even national team skaters like him, have to struggle financially to survive. It’s a reality of many sports that demand total dedication, especially the small ones, and is a topic worth a wheelbarrow [...]
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Race Reports- GBC, Gijon, Metrodome, Brit ST, Domberg WOW, Battle In Seattle, Australia Nats, & Finnish Indoor: It’s been a pretty busy weekend for me- I spent a lot of time training and then the work week started, so now I am spending a lot of time working! How exciting of a life eh? Actually, [...]
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Quebec Cup: It looks like the Quebec Cup is set for its first ever race on June 3rd. If you’d like to interact with Quebec Cup peoples, there’s a Quebec Cup forum just for you, and it’s all new!
Racing in Quebec is really fun, especially when you have to slay these skating monsters!Know Your CIC [...]
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Wolvega: Click here for the men’s and click here for the women’s photos from the Wolvega Baancompetitie A. The photos are from Harm de Boer Fotografie. You can find a report on Timmerman Powerslide and a report (with some results) on Skate Bond Nederland.
Wolvega- photo from Harm de Boer FotografieWolvega- photo from Harm de Boer [...]
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Colombia News- Coach Del Valle Suspended & Worlds: I was at the YMCA working out last night and I had another good discussion with Jose Hernandez. In case you don’t know him, he works at the YMCA that I use. It is right by Square One in Mississauga. I enjoy talking with Jose because he [...]
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Inline In 2010 Asia Games: Excellent news for roller sports- I’ll copy the text that Alex Bont posted in the Planet Forum: ‘In a major step towards inline speed skating becoming an Olympic sport, inline speed skating has been accepted into the Asian Games. The first competition will be in 2010 in Guangzhou in Southern [...]
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3 Pistes Video- Elite Women’s Elim- Valence: That’s right, Roller En Ligne has put up another video from France’s Trophee Des Trois Pistes- the latest video is the elite women’s elimination race from Valence. As usual, click here or press play below.
Trofeo Bononia Fini Sport Results: Click here for the results from the 26th Trofeo [...]
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Run For Reach Results & Photos: The Canadian outdoor racing scene openned up this weekend with the Minto Run For Reach Half Marathon. The event took place in Ottawa in rainy and chilly weather. Click here for the results and click here for photos posted on OISC. The top men’s finisher is Montreal’s Youri Juteau [...]
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Reports- Bologna- Colombia- Unive WOW Brakel- Trofeo CPEnol: Lots of racing action this weekend- let’s start with the Italian Inline Powerslide Cup Bologna stage: top-3 men were 1- Shane Dobbin, 2- Fabio Francolini, 3- Antonio Ballarini, and top-3 women were 1- Giovanna Turchiarelli, 2- Simona di Eugenio, 3- Tamara Llorens. You can find a report [...]
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My New Suit: I’ve got a sweet skin suit that I will be racing in this year and I will also be selling the suit soon- the little picture below is what the suit looks like. The logos features on the suit include Il Peloton, Silver Sports, Matter/ Luigino, Race & Roll, and of course [...]
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3 Pistes- Photos & Video: Pattinaggio Bellusco has posted 8 galleries from the Trophe Des Trois Pistes: Use the following links: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H.
3 Pistes- photo from Pattinaggio BelluscoWarm up!!- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco3 Pistes- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco3 Pistes- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco3 Pistes- photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco3 [...]
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RSO Times: Jacky Shu put the skater times from all the RSO Speed Points Series into one file.
Training & News- Italy: The website Training & News has a lot of information, pictures, videos, results, etc. It’s kind of like my website, but not in English. Click on this post I’m a flirk!!! and scroll down [...]
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Monotone DC Speedskater: Monotone DC is an electronica/ pop/ alternative music group from Sweden- you can go to the group’s profile and listen to their song called Speedskater. I, eventually going to write a song about training and racing. I hope it’s as good as Speedskater.
Training Monotony: This is a good thread to link to, [...]
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A Couple Of Pictures From This Past Weekend: I wish I could share a picture of me running in and around St-Tite- St-Ttite is a small town of 5000 or so brave souls who live in the heart-land of Quebec. It is near Shawinigan and Trois Rivieres. When I was running, there was snow all [...]
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