Love's Viking Movie, Bont Key Chain, ESS #5, HRM Tip, Olympic Medals, Ottawa By #'s, Reports, Rich Ralph In Vancouver, USA World Champions

Love's Viking Movie: This movie has it all; robots, blades, and windmills. Drool drool drool. Viking Movie. Just in case you happen to be a long track marathon fan, you can check out a calendar with dates for a bunch of Essent and KNSB races starting on October 6th to March 1st 2008. And while we're taking about some ice news here, here's some information on Chris Creveling and his short track ice skating.


Bont Key Chain: I want one and I want it now; World's fastest... key chain!


ESS #5: The Eastern Seaboard Series has now completed its 2007 season with its 5th and final race. You can read up on what went down this past saturday. You can already find results on the ESS website- click here for stage 5 results and click here for the final overall rankings. You can find some reporting here. Click here for Herb Gayle's photos and click here for Martha!'s 104 photos.



2007-09-08 Trexlertown ESS #5 By Herb Gayle

Darren Kauffman surrounded by some mighty fine skaters- photo from Martha!
HRM Tip: Francisco Ramirez & the Inline Planet teamed up recently to publish How to Use a Heart Rate Monitor to Avoid Overtraining.

Olympic Medals: The map of Average Olympic Medals Won Per Million Inhabitants was recently linked to in Bont's forum.


Ottawa By #'s: For those of you who love numbers, you'll enjoy checking out the data and statistics from the past 3 years of the Ottawa Inline Skating Festival.

Reports: MundoPatin has posted a report on the Trofeo Villa de Amurrio. You can view photos here.


Trofeo Villa de Amurrio- photo from MundoPatin
You can find some reporting from the Padova Grand Prix in Bont's forum thanks to Bill Begg.

SkatePodium has a report on Lisse. Make sure you also check out the pictures of Lisse. You can view the exact same Lisse pictures by Harm de Boer here.


Going down in Lisse- photo from SkatePodium
The most recent French Inline Cup was held in Lyon. You can view a couple of video interviews including one of Jean-Robert Burlet & Philippe Poirier and a second one featuring Yann Guyader & Julien Sourisseau (they're in french)- Guyader, the eventual race winner, talks about how he fell in a race, and some of the skaters waited for him.



Skate Bond Nederland has a report on Rotterdan On Wheels. You can view the results.

You can find team results and solo results of the 6 Heures de Forchies. You've got 3 photo alubms to check out; bruno's photos, Stef's photos, and Comlevent's photos. You can also find a report (in french) thanks to Roller En Ligne.

Rich Ralph In Vancouver: Click here for photos of Rich Ralph as he arrives in Vancouver. Rich Ralph skated across Canada to raise funds to help fight cancer.


Rich Ralph in Vancouver- photo from Sjors
USA World Champions: You might be interested in putting your thoughts and perspectives down in USA World Champions past and present.