Love- 2 More Great Entries, Topics To Watch (USARS Must Die, About.com, Bridging The Gap, Team Application, Marathon Manager, Where's Guido, Ice Camp)

Love- 2 More Great Entries: Andrew Love's website Zen and the Art of Speedskating continues to grace the internet with some excellent entries. I am lucky to be able to link to his material and we're all lucky to be able to read it for free (might I suggest giving him a tip? Buy him a coffee!). His latest entries include September Determination and The 'Book of Meaghan'. I strongly suggest you read The 'Book of Meaghan' in its entirety.

Discussions To Watch (USARS Must Die, About.com, Bridging The Gap, Team Application, Marathon Manager, Where Is Guido, Ice Camp): Skating forums and message boards are filled with all sorts of entertaining and informative topics and exchanges. Here are a few that I've been keeping my eyes on.

The USARS Must Die! thread has come back to life after being idle for a couple of months. Plus there's 12 pages of reading to keep you reading all day if you like.

If you'd like to make some $ being the About.com inline skating web person, you can fund out more in Get Paid to Write About Skating (About.com Job)- actually, rumours are swirling that About.com has dropped the topic of inline skating. I haven't checked if this is true or not. I've never really been an About.com fan, so I'm not overly stressed about it.

I think that the thread Bridging the Gap Between Rec and Speed has got some pretty interesting and relevant discussions, definitely worth some time spent reading- I like this quote by tdellaringa; 'It's BRIDGING the gap, not CLOSING the gap. The gap will always exist, and we have to stop seeing it as a problem, and realize it's an opportunity. We need to let fitness and rec people know we'd love to have them at our events, and that they don't have to compete in Pro Men or Women to have fun. They don't have to wear a skinsuit, or a lycra jersey either. They can dress up like Captain America and have fun too. '.

If you'd like to be a member of a team, well, at least apply to be a member of a team, the go to G-Skate.com/Hyper/Bont team.

Check out Ice skating Marathon Manager if you'd like to manage your own long track ice team- see the thread here. It's a really cool game that I hope I have time to play!

Now the question of the day is 'Where is Guido'? Some people are trying to find the answer in Guido Patin Carrera . In case you don't know, Guido Ferra is the webmaster of Patin Carerra.

The thread Inline to ice transition camp (Utah, USA) quickly received some critisism minutes after being posted- I think it has a lot of potential to be a good, honest, and frank discussion about an important topic- ice & inline.