St. Paul Marathon with Old Friends, Tapering On TISC's Forum, Who's The Greatest ever?...for now, Canadian News, Videos Videos!

St. Paul Marathon with Old Friends: Now this is what I call a race report; St. Paul Marathon with Old Friends.

Tapering On TISC's Forum: The Toronto Inline Skating Club forum is home to a pretty informative discussion on tapering; seee Below is a letter I sent to the OISC about tapering.

Who's The Greatest ever?...for now: You can decide for yourself after you check out the world roller speed skating all-time medal tally kindly posted on SkatePodium (and copied and pasted into SSW)- the funny thing is that I look at how many medals these skaters have, and then I think of how much I struggle to earn a medal at the Canadian championships... these skaters are from another planet!

About what I posted below; I don't know if this medal tally is all-time, how accurate it is, and if it includes relays, track, road, marathons, etc.

Men
Place- Name- Country gold/silver/ bronze- total
1- Chad Hedrick- USA 41/13/4- 58
2- Joey Mantia- USA 13/5/3- 21
3- Gregorio Duggento- Italy 11/3/3- 17
4- Derek Parra- USA 9/6/2- 17
5- Keith Turner- USA 9/4/3- 16
6- Ippolito Sanfratello- Italy 8/2/5- 15
7- Pascal Briand- France- 6/7/3- 16
8- Derek Downing- USA- 6/5/2- 13
9- Kalon Dobbin- New Zealand- 5/9/8- 22
10- Tony Muse- USA- 5/3/3- 11

Women
Place- Name- Country gold/silver/ bronze- total
1- Theresa Cliff- USA 20/13/8- 31
2- Valentina Belloni- Italy 19/4/6- 29
3- Sheila Herrero- Spain- 14/7/5- 26
4- Andrea González- Argentina- 11/9/9- 29
5- Julie Glass- USA 8/9/5- 22
6- Cheryl Ezzell- USA- 7/9/3- 19
7- Jennifer Caicedo- Colombia- 6/4/1- 11
8- Jessica Smith- USA 6/3/3- 12
9- Briggite Méndez- Colombia 6/3/2 11
10- Alexandra Vivas- Colombia- 6/3/1 10

Canadian News: Mister Taylor's Calgary Rollercade Inline Speed Club has posted some pictures from this year's world championships; album #1, album #2, album #3.

If you'd like to explore a fairly comprehensive set of photos from the Ottawa Inline Skating Festival, then click here.


Some of the people at the afterpart after the Ottawa Inline Skating Festival- photo by Melissa Perrotta
You can read Candy Wong's OISF report- Jinxed In Ottawa.

Videos Videos!: Ready to spend some time checking out videos filled with inspiration and racing action?

Ok, great! Here we go-

Darren Kauffman's journey- I can't describe these two videos- see them for yourself- part 1 and part 2 or press below to play.

My Journey Part 1

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My Journey part 2

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SkatePodium's interview with Roy Boeve- click here for the video.

The Colombian team leaving the world championships marathon on a big fire truck! Looks like fun stuff- click here for the video.

Angeline Thomas interview- click here for the video, which includes some good race footage as well as Roy in his kitchen.


Click here for Flev On Ice's website which has some pretty sweet ice marathon videos on the mainpage. Plus, from my non-understanding and confusion about the website, I think it's a 5km outdoor canal that will have outdoor ice for 100 days during the year.

Swiss Inline Cup 111 St Galen- click for the video or press play below- while you're at it, you might want to check out Juka Linthline's 111 pictures.



St Galen 111km- the lead pack- photo from Juka Linthline

St Galen 111km- a cow- photo from Juka Linthline

St Galen 111km- a dog - photo from Juka Linthline

St Galen 111km- a cat- photo from Juka Linthline