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Ultra Long Race Updates: The New York 100k’s date has changed to September 27th according to the latest posts in The New York City Skate Marathon & NY 100K.
I now if you’re planning on regitering for A2A, I think you have until midnight tonight to get the early bird entry fee- read more in A2A [...]
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Where I Will Be This Weekend: This weekend, I will be in Quebec City to cover the ISU Samsung Short Track World Cup. I expect to have a press pass, so I’ll be taking some pretty good pictures and videos that you’ll be able to view and relish.
I’ll be driving some 800km to get to [...]
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Design Canada! Results: The Design Canada! results are in. The skating community selected 2 entries amongst 22 very good designs- #12 and #20. The #12 design will serve as the Canadian World Team’s and Pan American Games Team racing suit and the #20 design can be purchased and worn by non-World Team and Pan American [...]
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Cheek’s Message: Michael Cheek wrote a good entry on his site; A message to today’s youth. He offers a lot of good advice to younger skaters. Before giving his ideas, he first says ‘…I’ve been a guy ‘that’s could be really fast’. I’ve been a guy that’s wasting his time skating. I’ve been called someone [...]
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Hamar Long Track World Cup: Click here for all the results from the Hamar Long Track World Cup. Here are a couple of article from Speed Skating Canada; Gold rush continues for Wotherspoon at speed skating World Cup and Jeremy Wotherspoon wins gold at speed skating World Cup- looking at the results, looks like the [...]
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Catching Up On Tips: Here are a few article from the past week that contain tips; Roller En Ligne has an article about custom moulding skates. The following link will take you to an article where Christophe Audoir writes about boot selection.
The Inline Planet posted last week’s skate tip from Joey Mantia; Three Keys of [...]
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Catching Up On Results & Reports: There are plenty of results and stories to report from last weekend’s racing action. There are also links from results for this weekend’s races.
ISU Long Track World Cup- Hamar, Norway: [Results (updated as the competition progresses] [KNSB Cup Site With Information] [Browse SSWOM For Reports & Results]
World Long Track [...]
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Catching Up On Pictures: There lots of pictures for you to browse through. Let’s start with last night’s pictures that I took at the Scooter’s Indoor Speed Club practice.
For those of you wondering on the state of my knee, it’s getting better slowly. I skated the warm up without any pain or incident. I’m focusing [...]
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The Big Catch Up: I’ll be catching up SSW with all sorts of cool and interesting links over the next couple of days. I’ve got tons of information to put up, and I’ll get to it. This week has been really busy- I still have to help a friend renovate his new home, meet with [...]
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Canadian Short Track Team Trials- Day 3 Videos: Don’t wprry; I haven’t been neglecting my site- I’ve just been really really busy over the last couple of days with driving back home from Montreal, working, suffering like hell in a couple of work outs, and going to indoor practice and hanging out with the gang [...]
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Canadian Short Track Team Trials- Day 3- 1000’s & Relays: I spent a good part of today catching the Canadian Short Track Team Trials action at arena Maurice Richard in Montreal. The arena is located right beside the infamous Stade Olympique- one of the venues for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.
The racing action was superb! [...]
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Canadian Short Track Team Trials- Day 2- 500’s: I’m in Montreal right now. I was lucky enough to watch the hot short track action today at Maurice Richard Arena- Canadian short track speed skaters were trying to qualify for the national team. I was told that the rankings for the national team will consist of [...]
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What’s Up This Weekend: It looks like this weekend’s gonna be really busy- and that’s good because you’ll have plenty of material to dig up- or if you have very limited time, it can be a bad thing because you’ll feel overwhelmed by all the information that’s available at a click of a mouse.
The long [...]
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Love’s Blue Demon Vs Wind: Andrew Love’s Blue Demon vs Wind tells a great story of two mythic characters who battle on ice. A must read.
‘They raced and raced, and finally ended up in hand-to-hand combat. A total contest of willpower vs windpower, muscle vs nature‘- photo and caption from Andrew LovePortland: One of my [...]
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Across America: Danny Daniels’ quest to skate across America continues- read his latest entry called The desert and the mountains. What a unique experience that we get to read about; he writes ‘The desert is beautiful and harsh. It is elegant and unforgiving. Even the wildlife here seems to barely hold on to life. Proud [...]
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Vote For Design Canada: Roller Sports Canada and Il Peloton’s ‘Design Canada’ competition features 22 submissions for costumes that you can vote for. There are plenty of sharp looking costumes, and after much thought, I voted for entry #12. Click here for all the information.
Road Rash Chronicles has put up an entry reguarding the voting; [...]
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2008 Worlds Track: Click here to view photos from the track that will be used in the 2008 World Roller Speed Skating Championships in Spain. I found the link in the thread 2008 Worlds Moreda track. Xuacu writes ‘They’re good if you like to see dust, concrete and machinery‘.
Tampa Classic: The Tampa Classic is taking [...]
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Aaron In Ottawa: Aaron Arndt made a trip from Brampton to Ottawa to skate with the Ottawa skaters- here are his thought before the practice- In Ottawa- you can read about the practice in Road Rash Chronicles‘ entry called Back to the grind..
Aaron Arndt leading the way- photo from Road Rash ChroniclesRoller Derby & Gillian [...]
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KNSB #13: The latest KNSB long track race took place earlier today in Heerenveen. Click here for Skate Podium’s live udpates.
If you’d like to see a video of the PP Marathon in Heerenveen mens’ A, click here or use the buttons below to play. You can find results from the PP Marathon here.
Euro LT: The [...]
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Help In Danny’s Quest: Danny Daniels is currently skating across America. According to his latest map, he’s currently South-West or Phoenix, AZ, and I like this quote from his blog which he is using to chronicle his journey; ‘We skated up I-8 to the next rest stop on the smoothest shoulder I have found to [...]
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