The French Inline Cup’s Goelo Roller Nature took place this weekend- use the links below for the results;
- Open women
- Open men
- L’heure roller
- Defi jeune
- Marathon women (elite)
- Marathon men (elite)

A couple of sweet videos on Bont TV from n1k1ok; Weinfelden Hillclimb to Stelzenhof and 2nd Wednesday Night Racing.

Here are a few links that I added to my list; Matter-Racing (it’s worth browsing through their team section) and X-Tech Speed Skates. I also added the Toronto Inline Skating Club’s Forum and Danger Racing.

The RSO Outdoor Series is kicking off next weekend in Ottawa. The first of four events is taking place on Sunday, May 18th at the Aylmer track in Hull, right across the bridge from Ottawa.

Visit the RSO website for all the updated forms and information sheets. Hope to see you there

For a few reasons, I didn’t end up going to Montreal for the Festival Roller de Montreal.

A number of my friends from the Toronto area made their way to Montreal for the event. In her entry In Montreal, Candy Wong said ‘I am really looking forward to the race tomorrow. Hopefully I can reach my goal of 1:33. That is the magic number to convince me that I can race in wave B in Duluth based on some convoluted calculation‘.

Reports coming right now point to the following results with a winning time of 1:14;

Men
1- Olivier Jean
2- Mathieu Giroux
3- Benoit Letourneau
4- Adrian Loewen
5- Allain Legacy

Women
1- Sarah Hopkins
2- Morgane Echardour
3- Bailin Xie

In his entry Saturday…, Aaron Arndt writes about an ‘Uphill 4km race today‘.

In Weinfelden Hillclimb, Bill Begg reports on the event, saying ‘Fresh off the Plane yesterday,the Ecuador skater Jorge Balonas showed a high level of Fitness & a great degree of Determination, to chew up leader Rueben Martinez, on the climb up the last steep hill, a 15% climb of 400 meters. In 3rd place was Christian Diaz Grandidos Colombia & 4th Alexanda Bastidas from Venezuela‘ and finishing by saying ‘As well as all the top South American skaters present the Locals were treated to an array of overseas talent, with Australia, Canada & New Zealand also represented‘.

Mundo Patin has plenty of coverage from the San Antonio competition in Spain- you can find report 1, report 2, and report 3.

The results read like a who’s who of racing- you can find complete results here and also here.

Check out Patin Carrera’s coverage.

Skate Podium is reporting that Sjoerd ‘the House Man’ Huisman broke the 15km pts/ elim world record.

Finally, for pictures, check out day 1 photos and day 2 photos.

Day 1 racing- photo from Mundo Patin

Day 1 racing- photo from Mundo Patin

Day 2 racing- photo from Mundo Patin

Day 2 racing- photo from Mundo Patin

The Trillium 10k took place earlier today under sunny skies in Mount Forest, Ontario.

About 30-skaters took to the start line. We left the rough roads of Mount Forest through the down-town and onto the smooth coutry-side roads.

Morgan Williams took the early lead in the race. Jesse Pauley, Jade Pauley, and Morgan Williams were in a small break early on in the race, but Scott Pauley, Leonardo Frusteri, and I caught the early break when about 2km’s into the race, Jesse Pauley took a wrong turn. The pack was ‘calm’ at the time, and Jesse was able to re-join the lead group. Soon after, I launched a small attack while Leonardo Frusteri was leading. Frusteri chased into the headwind, but my lead opened up into a sizeable one.

I kept a high pace, mantaining the best technique that I could- landing on an outside edge, double pushing, keeping my knees and weight forward, and driving my knees forward during the recovery phase.

I made it to the turnaround point well into the lead and I made my way back to town with a nice tailwind, being encouraged by the cheers of the skaters and runners as we crossed paths going in the opposite direction.

Once I arrived in town, the roadmarshal on the bike didn’t tell me where to turn, so I ended up zooming past the turn at full speed. I had to turn back around and get back on course. Just as I made it back onto the course, Jesse Pauley was bearing down on me.

With 1km to go and a in 30-meter lead, it was very difficult for me to get back up to speed on the very rough roads. I looked back and saw Jesse chasing me, hunting me down, but I was able to fend him off for the win.

Morgan Williams beat out Herb Gayle and Jade Pauley for 3rd.

Sarah Hopkins was the top female finisher, skating a good part of the race on her own.

Click here for the results.

You can find all my photos here.

Overall
1- Peter Doucet (large and in charge)
2- Jesse Pauley
3- Morgan Williams
4- Herb Gayle
5- Jesse Pauley
6- Scott Pauley
7- Travis Shaw
8- Leonardo Frusteri
9- Sarah Hopkins
10- George Nikodym

The group before the race

Herb Gayle- ready to race

Post-race food-yum!

More post-race food-yum!

Team Florida in Mount Forest eating licorice from the chocolate fountain

Left to right- Jesse Pauley, Herb Gayle, Melissa Maas, George Nikodym, me, and Jesse Pauley

Jesse Pauley won a hair-cup in a draw- he needs it too…

Leonardo Frusteri won a bag in a draw

Skate Podium is the place to go to for videos from the Steenwijk Megapool.nl Holland Inline Cup;
- Steenwijk men’s finish
- Steenwijk women’s finish
- Steenwijk men individual
- Steenwijk men’s report- check out the long staight- watch the team strategy, the movement in the pack, and then the crash- all this at the 2:30 mark- and the 2-man breakaway of Scott Arlidge and Roy Boeve is caught by Gary Hekman and the rest of the pack at the last possible second!
- Steenwijk women’s report

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